Device for generating broadcast signal frame and method for generating broadcast signal frame corresponding to time interleaver for supporting plurality of operation modes

ABSTRACT

An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame corresponding to a time interleaver supporting a plurality of operation modes are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver, the time interleaver uses one of time interleaver groups, and the time interleaver performs the interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to broadcast signal transmission/receptiontechnology that is used in a broadcasting system and, more particularly,to a broadcast signal transmission/reception system thatmultiplexes/demultiplexes and then transmits/receives two or moresignals.

BACKGROUND ART

Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation (BICM) is bandwidth-efficienttransmission technology, and is implemented in such a manner that anerror-correction coder, a bit-by-bit interleaver and a high-ordermodulator are combined with one another.

BICM can provide excellent performance using a simple structure becauseit uses a low-density parity check (LDPC) coder or a Turbo coder as theerror-correction coder. Furthermore, BICM can provide high-levelflexibility because it can select modulation order and the length andcode rate of an error correction code in various forms. Due to theseadvantages, BICM has been used in broadcasting standards, such as DVB-T2and DVB-NGH, and has a strong possibility of being used in othernext-generation broadcasting systems.

To support multiple services at the same time, multiplexing, i.e., theprocess of mixing a plurality of signals, is required. Of multiplexingtechniques, currently widely used techniques include Time DivisionMultiplexing (TDM) adapted to divide and use time resources andFrequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) adapted to divide and usefrequency resources. That is, TDM is a method of assigning time segmentsto respective services, and FDM is a technique for assigning frequencyresource segments to respective services and then using them. Recently,there is an urgent need for new multiplexing technology that isapplicable to a next generation broadcasting system and provides greaterflexibility and performance than TDM and FDM.

DISCLOSURE Technical Problem

An object of the present invention is to provide a broadcast signalframe structure in which new signal multiplexing technologies capable ofproviding greater flexibility and performance than TDM and FDM areapplied.

Furthermore, an object of the present invention is to efficientlyperform signaling related to time-interleaving which is applied to acore layer and an enhanced layer.

Furthermore, an object of the present invention is to optimize a lengthof a field indicating a start position of a first complete FEC block ofa Physical Layer Pipe in a subframe according to a time interleavermode.

Technical Solution

In order to accomplish the above objects, the present invention providesan apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame, including: acombiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a corelayer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; apower normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexedsignal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a timeinterleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal byperforming interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signaland the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured togenerate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signalingtime interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver. Inthis case, the time interleaver performs the interleaving by using oneof a plurality of operation modes.

In this case, the operation modes may include a first mode correspondingto no time interleaving, a second mode for performing a Convolutionaltime interleaving and a third mode for performing a Hybrid timeinterleaving.

In this case, the preamble may include a field indicating a startposition of a first complete FEC block corresponding to a currentPhysical Layer Pipe for the first mode and the second mode, and may notinclude the field indicating the start position of the first FEC blockfor the third mode.

In this case, the field indicating the start position of the first FECblock may be one of a first field used in the first mode and a secondfield used in the second mode, and the first field and the second fieldmay have different lengths.

In this case, the length of the second field may be longer than thelength of the first field.

In this case, the length of the first field may be determined based on alength of a LDPC codeword and a modulation order and the length of thesecond field may be determined not only by the length of the LDPCcodeword and the modulation order but also by further considering adepth of a Convolutional time interleaver.

In this case, the length of the first field may be 15 bits and thelength of the second field may be 22 bits.

In this case, the first field and the second field may be separatelysignaled for each of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signaland an enhanced layer corresponding to the enhanced layer signal.

In this case, the time interleaver may use one of time interleavergroups and a boundary between the time interleaver groups may be aboundary between Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of the core layer.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be signaled on thebasis of the core layer.

Furthermore, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method ofgenerating broadcast signal frame, including: generating a multiplexedsignal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal atdifferent power levels; reducing the power of the multiplexed signal toa power level corresponding to the core layer signal; generating atime-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied toboth the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and generatinga broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling timeinterleaver information corresponding to the interleaving. In this case,the interleaving is performed by using one of a plurality of operationmodes.

In this case, the operations modes may include a first modecorresponding to no time interleaving, a second mode for performing aConvolutional time interleaving and a third mode for performing a Hybridtime interleaving.

In this case, the preamble may include a field indicating a startposition of a first complete FEC block corresponding to a currentPhysical Layer Pipe for the first mode and the second mode, and may notinclude the field indicating the start position of the first FEC blockfor the third mode.

In this case, the field indicating the start position of the first FECblock may be one of a first field used in the first mode and a secondfield used in the second mode, and the first field and the second fieldmay have different lengths.

In this case, the length of the second field may be longer than thelength of the first field.

In this case, the length of the first field may be determined based on alength of a LDPC codeword and a modulation order and the length of thesecond field may be determined not only by the length of the LDPCcodeword and the modulation order but also by further considering adepth of a Convolutional time interleaver.

In this case, the length of the first field may be 15 bits and thelength of the second field may be 22 bits.

In this case, the first field and the second field may be separatelysignaled for each of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signaland an enhanced layer corresponding to the enhanced layer signal.

In this case, the interleaving may use one of time interleaver groupsand a boundary between the time interleaver groups may be a boundarybetween Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of the core layer.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be signaled on thebasis of the core layer.

Advantageous Effects

According to the present invention, a frame structure in which newsignal multiplexing technologies capable of providing greaterflexibility and performance than TDM and FDM is provided.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, the signaling relatedto the time-interleaving which is applied to a core layer and anenhanced layer can be efficiently performed.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, a length of a fieldindicating a start position of a first complete FEC block of a PhysicalLayer Pipe in a subframe can be optimized according to a timeinterleaver mode.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a broadcast signaltransmission/reception system according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart showing a broadcast signaltransmission/reception method according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of the apparatus forgenerating broadcast signal frame in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of a broadcastsignal frame;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the receiving process of thebroadcast signal frame shown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another example of the receiving process ofthe broadcast signal frame shown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing another example of the apparatus forgenerating broadcast signal frame shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing an example of the signal demultiplexershown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of the core layer BICMdecoder and the enhanced layer symbol extractor shown in FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing another example of the core layerBICM decoder and the enhanced layer symbol extractor shown in FIG. 8;

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing still another example of the corelayer BICM decoder and the enhanced layer symbol extractor shown in FIG.8;

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing another example of the signaldemultiplexer shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an increase in power attributable to thecombination of a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal;

FIG. 14 is an operation flowchart showing a method of generatingbroadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a structure of a super-frame which includesbroadcast signal frames according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of a LDM frame includingmultiple-physical layer pipes and using LDM of two layers;

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing another example of a LDM frame includingmultiple-physical layer pipes and using LDM of two layers;

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an application example of a LDM frame usingmultiple-physical layer pipes and LDM of two layers;

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing another application example of a LDM frameusing multiple-physical layer pipes and LDM of two layers;

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example in which a convolutional timeinterleaver is used;

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing another example in which a convolutionaltime interleaver is used;

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example in which a hybrid timeinterleaver is used;

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing time interleaver groups in the example ofFIG. 22;

FIGS. 24-26 are diagrams showing a process for calculating a size of theincomplete FEC block in the example of FIG. 23;

FIG. 27 is a diagram for explaining the number of bits required forL1D_plp_fec_block_start when L1D_plp_TI_mode=“00”; and

FIGS. 28 and 29 are diagrams for explaining the number of bits requiredfor L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start when L1D_plp_TI_mode=“01”.

MODE FOR INVENTION

The present invention will be described in detail below with referenceto the accompanying drawings. In the description, redundant descriptionsand descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that havebeen deemed to make the gist of the present invention unnecessarilyobscure will be omitted below. The embodiments of the present inventionare provided to fully describe the present invention to persons havingordinary knowledge in the art to which the present invention pertains.Accordingly, the shapes, sizes, etc. of components in the drawings maybe exaggerated to make the description obvious.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention are described in detailbelow with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a broadcast signaltransmission/reception system according to an embodiment of the presentinvention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a broadcast signal transmission/reception systemaccording to the embodiment of the present invention includes abroadcast signal transmission apparatus 110, a wireless channel 120, anda broadcast signal reception apparatus 130.

The broadcast signal transmission apparatus 110 includes an apparatusfor generating broadcast signal frame 111 which generate the broadcastsignal frame by multiplexing core layer data and enhanced layer data,and an OFDM transmitter 113.

The apparatus 111 combines a core layer signal corresponding to corelayer data and an enhanced layer signal corresponding to enhanced layerdata at different power levels, and generates a multiplexed signal byperforming interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signaland the enhanced layer signal. In this case, the apparatus 111 maygenerate a broadcast signal frame including a bootstrap and a preambleusing a time-interleaved signal. In this case, the broadcast signalframe may be an ATSC 3.0 frame.

In this case, the time interleaving may use one of time interleavergroups, and a boundary between the time interleaver groups may be aboundary between Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of a core layercorresponding to the core layer signal. That is, one of the boundariesbetween the Physical Layer Pipes of the core layer may be the boundarybetween the time interleaver groups.

The OFDM transmitter 113 transmits the multiplexed signal using an OFDMcommunication method via an antenna 117, thereby allowing thetransmitted OFDM signal to be received via the antenna 137 of thebroadcast signal reception apparatus 130 over the wireless channel 120.

The broadcast signal reception apparatus 130 includes an OFDM receiver133 and a signal demultiplexer 131. When the signal transmitted over thewireless channel 120 is received via the antenna 137, the OFDM receiver133 receives an OFDM signal via synchronization, channel estimation andequalization.

In this case, the OFDM receiver 133 may detect and demodulate thebootstrap from the OFDM signal, demodulate the preamble usinginformation included in the bootstrap, and demodulate the super-imposedpayload using information included in the preamble.

The signal demultiplexer 131 restores the core layer data from thesignal (super-imposed payload) received via the OFDM receiver 133 first,and then restores the enhanced layer data via cancellation correspondingto the restored core layer data. In this case, the signal demultiplexer131 may generate a broadcast signal frame first, may restore thebootstrap, may restore the preamble using the information included inthe bootstrap, and may use the signaling information included in thepreamble for the restoration of a data signal. In this case, thesignaling information may be L1 signaling information and may includeinjection level information, normalizing factor information, etc.

In this case, the preamble may include a PLP identification informationfor identifying Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs); and a layer identificationinformation for identifying layers corresponding to division of layers.

In this case, the PLP identification information and the layeridentification information may be included in the preamble as fieldsdifferent from each other.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be included in thepreamble on the basis of the core layer.

In this case, the preamble may selectively include an injection levelinformation corresponding to the injection level controller for each ofthe Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) based on a result of comparing the layeridentification information with a predetermined value.

In this case, the preamble may include type information, start positioninformation and size information of the Physical Layer Pipes

In this case, the type information may be for identifying one among afirst type corresponding to a non-dispersed physical layer pipe and asecond type corresponding to a dispersed physical layer pipe.

In this case, the non-dispersed physical layer pipe may be assigned forcontiguous data cell indices, and the dispersed physical layer pipe mayinclude two or more subslices.

In this case, the type information may be selectively signaled accordingto a result of comparing the layer identification information with apredetermined value for each of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs).

In this case, the type information may be signaled only for the corelayer.

In this case, the start position information may be identical to anindex corresponding to the first data cell of the physical layer pipe.

In this case, the start position information may indicate the startposition of the physical layer pipe using cell addressing scheme.

In this case, the start position information may be included in thepreamble for each of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) without checking acondition of a conditional statement corresponding to the layeridentification information.

In this case, the size information may be generated based on the numberof data cells assigned to the physical layer pipe.

In this case, the size information may be included in the preamble foreach of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) without checking a condition ofa conditional statement corresponding to the layer identificationinformation.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be signaled on thebasis of the core layer.

In this case, the time interleaver may correspond to a hybrid timeinterleaver. In this case, Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of a core layerand an enhanced layer may include only complete FEC blocks.

In this case, the preamble may be for signaling information foridentifying a part of a FEC block in the enhanced layer in case that theboundary between the time interleaver groups does not correspond to aboundary between FEC blocks in the enhanced layer, the FEC blockcorresponding to the boundary between the time interleaver groups.

In this case, the information for identifying the part of the FEC blockmay include at least one of start position information of a PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP) in the core layer, start position information of aPhysical Layer Pipe (PLP) in the enhanced layer, modulation informationcorresponding to the enhanced layer, and FEC type informationcorresponding to the enhanced layer.

In this case, the start position information of the Physical Layer Pipe(PLP) may correspond to an index of a first data cell of the PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP).

In this case, the modulation information may be signaled only if the FECtype information satisfies a predetermined condition.

In this case, the enhanced layer signal may correspond to enhanced layerdata that is restored based on cancellation corresponding to restorationof core layer data corresponding to the core layer signal.

In this case, the time interleaver may correspond to a convolutionaltime interleaver, the time interleaver groups may include the PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP) which includes an incomplete FEC block, and thepreamble may be for signaling start position information of a firstcomplete FEC block in the Physical Layer Pipe (PLP).

In this case, the time interleaver may perform the interleaving by usingone of a plurality of operation modes.

In this case, the operation modes may include a first mode correspondingto no time interleaving, a second mode for performing a Convolutionaltime interleaving and a third mode for performing a Hybrid timeinterleaving.

In this case, the preamble may include a field indicating a startposition of a first complete FEC block corresponding to a currentPhysical Layer Pipe for the first mode and the second mode, and may notinclude the field indicating the start position of the first FEC blockfor the third mode. In this case, the field indicating the startposition may indicate the start position of the first FEC block startingin a current Physical Layer Pipe during a current subframe.

In this case, the field indicating the start position of the first FECblock may be one of a first field used in the first mode and a secondfield used in the second mode, and the first field and the second fieldmay have different lengths.

In this case, the length of the second field may be longer than thelength of the first field.

In this case, the length of the first field may be determined based on alength of a LDPC codeword and a modulation order and the length of thesecond field may be determined not only by the length of the LDPCcodeword and the modulation order but also by further considering adepth of a Convolutional time interleaver.

In this case, the length of the first field may be 15 bits and thelength of the second field may be 22 bits.

In this case, the first field and the second field may be separatelysignaled for each of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signaland an enhanced layer corresponding to the enhanced layer signal.

As will be described in detail later, the apparatus 111 shown in FIG. 1may include a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal bycombining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at differentpower levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of themultiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layersignal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleavedsignal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layersignal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured togenerate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signalingtime interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver. Inthis case, the time interleaver may perform the interleaving by usingone of a plurality of operation modes. In this case, the broadcastsignal transmission apparatus 110 shown in FIG. 1 may be viewed asincluding: a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal bycombining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at differentpower levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of themultiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layersignal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleavedsignal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layersignal and the enhanced layer signal; a frame builder configured togenerate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signalingtime interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver; andan OFDM transmitter configured to transmit the broadcast signal frameusing OFDM communication scheme through an antenna. In this case, thetime interleaver may perform the interleaving by using one of aplurality of operation modes.

As will be described in detail later, the signal demultiplexer shown inFIG. 1 may include a time deinterleaver configured to generate atime-deinterleaved signal by applying time deinterleaving to a receivedsignal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame; a de-normalizerconfigured to increase the power of the received signal or thetime-deinterleaved signal by a level corresponding to a reduction inpower by the power normalizer of the transmitter; a core layer BICMdecoder configured to restore core layer data from the signalpower-adjusted by the de-normalizer; an enhanced layer symbol extractorconfigured to extract an enhanced layer signal by performingcancellation corresponding to the core layer data on the signalpower-adjusted by the de-normalizer using the output signal of the corelayer FEC decoder of the core layer BICM decoder; a de-injection levelcontroller configured to increase the power of the enhanced layer signalby a level corresponding to a reduction in power by the injection levelcontroller of the transmitter; and an enhanced layer BICM decoderconfigured to restore enhanced layer data using the output signal of thede-injection level controller. In this case, the broadcast signalreception apparatus 130 shown in FIG. 1 may be viewed as including: anOFDM receiver configured to generate a received signal by performing anyone or more of synchronization, channel estimation and equalization on atransmitted signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame; a timedeinterleaver configured to generate a time-deinterleaved signal byapplying time deinterleaving to the received signal; a de-normalizerconfigured to increase the power of the received signal or thetime-deinterleaved signal by a level corresponding to a reduction inpower by the power normalizer of the transmitter; a core layer BICMdecoder configured to restore core layer data from the signalpower-adjusted by the de-normalizer; an enhanced layer symbol extractorconfigured to extract an enhanced layer signal by performingcancellation corresponding to the core layer data on the signalpower-adjusted by the de-normalizer using the output signal of the corelayer FEC decoder of the core layer BICM decoder; a de-injection levelcontroller configured to increase the power of the enhanced layer signalby a level corresponding to a reduction in power by the injection levelcontroller of the transmitter; and an enhanced layer BICM decoderconfigured to restore enhanced layer data using the output signal of thede-injection level controller.

In this case, the time deinterleaver may perform the deinterleaving byusing one of a plurality of operation modes. That is, the timedeinterleaver may be operated corresponding to the time interleaverperforming the interleaving by using one of a plurality of operationmodes.

Although not explicitly shown in FIG. 1, a broadcast signaltransmission/reception system according to an embodiment of the presentinvention may multiplex/demultiplex one or more pieces of extensionlayer data in addition to the core layer data and the enhanced layerdata. In this case, the extension layer data may be multiplexed at apower level lower than that of the core layer data and the enhancedlayer data. Furthermore, when two or more extension layers are included,the injection power level of a second extension layer may be lower thanthe injection power level of a first extension layer, and the injectionpower level of a third extension layer may be lower than the injectionpower level of the second extension layer.

FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart showing a broadcast signaltransmission/reception method according to an embodiment of the presentinvention.

Referring to FIG. 2, in the broadcast signal transmission/receptionmethod according to the embodiment of the present invention, a corelayer signal and an enhanced layer signal are combined at differentpower levels and then multiplexed to generate a broadcast signal frameincluding time interleaver information shared by the core layer signaland the enhanced layer signal and a preamble for signaling the timeinterleaver information at step S210.

In this case, the broadcast signal frame generated at step S210 mayinclude the bootstrap, the preamble and a super-imposed payload. In thiscase, at least of the bootstrap and the preamble may include L1signaling information. In this case, the L1 signaling information mayinclude injection level information and normalizing factor information.

In this case, the preamble may include a PLP identification informationfor identifying Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs); and a layer identificationinformation for identifying layers corresponding to division of layers.

In this case, the PLP identification information and the layeridentification information may be included in the preamble as fieldsdifferent from each other.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be included in thepreamble on the basis of a core layer.

In this case, the preamble may selectively include an injection levelinformation corresponding to the injection level controller for each ofthe Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) based on a result of comparing the layeridentification information with a predetermined value.

In this case, the preamble may include type information, start positioninformation and size information of the Physical Layer Pipes

In this case, the type information may be for identifying one among afirst type corresponding to a non-dispersed physical layer pipe and asecond type corresponding to a dispersed physical layer pipe.

In this case, the non-dispersed physical layer pipe may be assigned forcontiguous data cell indices, and the dispersed physical layer pipe mayinclude two or more subslices.

In this case, the type information may be selectively signaled accordingto a result of comparing the layer identification information with apredetermined value for each of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs).

In this case, the type information may be signaled only for the corelayer.

In this case, the start position information may be identical to anindex corresponding to the first data cell of the physical layer pipe.

In this case, the start position information may indicate the startposition of the physical layer pipe using cell addressing scheme.

In this case, the start position information may be included in thepreamble for each of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) without checking acondition of a conditional statement corresponding to the layeridentification information.

In this case, the size information may be generated based on the numberof data cells assigned to the physical layer pipe.

In this case, the size information may be included in the preamble foreach of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) without checking a condition ofa conditional statement corresponding to the layer identificationinformation.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be signaled on thebasis of the core layer.

In this case, the generating the time-interleaved signal may use ahybrid time interleaver for performing the interleaving.

In this case, the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of a core layer and anenhanced layer may include only complete FEC blocks.

In this case, the preamble may be for signaling information foridentifying a part of a FEC block of the enhanced layer in case that theboundary between the time interleaver groups does not correspond to aboundary between FEC blocks of the enhanced layer, the FEC blockcorresponding to the boundary between the time interleaver groups.

In this case, the information for identifying the part of the FEC blockmay include at least one of start position information of a PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP) in the core layer, start position information of aPhysical Layer Pipe (PLP) in the enhanced layer, modulation informationcorresponding to the enhanced layer, and FEC type informationcorresponding to the enhanced layer.

In this case, the start position information of the Physical Layer Pipe(PLP) may correspond to an index of a first data cell of the PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP).

In this case, the modulation information may be signaled only if the FECtype information satisfies a predetermined condition.

In this case, the enhanced layer signal corresponds to enhanced layerdata that may be restored based on cancellation corresponding torestoration of core layer data corresponding to the core layer signal.

In this case, the generating the time-interleaved signal may use aconvolutional time interleaver for performing the interleaving, the timeinterleaver groups may include the Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) whichincludes an incomplete FEC block, and the preamble may be for signalingstart position information of a first complete FEC block in the PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP).

In this case, the interleaving may be performed by using one of aplurality of operation modes.

In this case, the operation modes may include a first mode correspondingto no time interleaving, a second mode for performing a Convolutionaltime interleaving and a third mode for performing a Hybrid timeinterleaving.

In this case, the preamble may include a field indicating a startposition of a first complete FEC block corresponding to a currentPhysical Layer Pipe for the first mode and the second mode, and may notinclude the field indicating the start position of the first FEC blockfor the third mode.

In this case, the field indicating the start position of the first FECblock may be one of a first field used in the first mode and a secondfield used in the second mode, and the first field and the second fieldmay have different lengths.

In this case, the length of the second field may be longer than thelength of the first field.

In this case, the length of the first field may be determined based on alength of a LDPC codeword and a modulation order and the length of thesecond field may be determined not only by the length of the LDPCcodeword and the modulation order but also by further considering adepth of a Convolutional time interleaver.

In this case, the length of the first field may be 15 bits and thelength of the second field may be 22 bits.

In this case, the first field and the second field may be separatelysignaled for each of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signaland an enhanced layer corresponding to the enhanced layer signal.

Furthermore, in the broadcast signal transmission/reception methodaccording to the embodiment of the present invention, the broadcastsignal frame is OFDM transmitted at step S220.

Furthermore, in the broadcast signal transmission/reception methodaccording to the embodiment of the present invention, the transmittedsignal is OFDM received at step S230.

In this case, at step S230, synchronization, channel estimation andequalization may be performed.

In this case, the bootstrap may be restored, the preamble may berestored using a signal included in the restored bootstrap, and the datasignal may be restored using the signaling information included in thepreamble at step S230.

Furthermore, in the broadcast signal transmission/reception methodaccording to the embodiment of the present invention, core layer data isrestored from the received signal at step S240.

Furthermore, in the broadcast signal transmission/reception methodaccording to the embodiment of the present invention, enhanced layerdata is restored via the cancellation of the core layer signal at stepS250.

In particular, steps S240 and S250 shown in FIG. 2 may correspond todemultiplexing operations corresponding to step S210.

As will be described in detail later, step S210 shown in FIG. 2 mayinclude generating a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signaland an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; reducing thepower of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to thecore layer signal; generating a time-interleaved signal by performinginterleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and theenhanced layer signal; and generating a broadcast signal frame includinga preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding tothe interleaving. In this case, the interleaving may be performed byusing one of a plurality of operation modes. In this case, the broadcastsignal transmission method of steps S210 and S220 may be viewed asincluding generating a multiplexed signal by combining a core layersignal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; reducingthe power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding tothe core layer signal; generating a time-interleaved signal byperforming interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signaland the enhanced layer signal; generating a broadcast signal frameincluding a preamble for signaling time interleaver informationcorresponding to the interleaving; and transmitting the broadcast signalframe using an OFDM communication scheme through an antenna. In thiscase, the interleaving may be performed by using one of a plurality ofoperation modes.

As will be described in detail later, steps S240 and S250 shown in FIG.2 may include generating a time-deinterleaved signal by applying timedeinterleaving to a received signal corresponding to a broadcast signalframe; increasing the power of the received signal or thetime-deinterleaved signal by a level corresponding to a reduction inpower by the power normalizer of the transmitter; restoring core layerdata from the power-adjusted signal; extracting an enhanced layer signalby performing cancellation corresponding to the core layer data on thepower-adjusted signal; increasing the power of the enhanced layer signalby a level corresponding to a reduction in power by the injection levelcontroller of the transmitter; and restoring enhanced layer data usingthe power-adjusted enhanced signal. In this case, a broadcast signalreception method according to an embodiment of the present invention maybe viewed as including: generating a received signal by performing anyone or more of synchronization, channel estimation and equalization on atransmitted signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame; generatinga time-deinterleaved signal by applying time deinterleaving to thereceived signal; increasing the power of the received signal or thetime-deinterleaved signal by a level corresponding to a reduction inpower by the power normalizer of the transmitter; restoring core layerdata from the power-adjusted signal; extracting an enhanced layer signalby performing cancellation corresponding to the core layer data on thepower-adjusted signal; increasing the power of the enhanced layer signalby a level corresponding to a reduction in power by the injection levelcontroller of the transmitter; and restoring enhanced layer data usingthe power-adjusted enhanced layer signal.

In this case, the time deinterleaving may perform the deinterleaving byusing one of a plurality of operation modes.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of the apparatus forgenerating broadcast signal frame in FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 3, the apparatus for generating broadcast signal frameaccording to an embodiment of the present invention may include a corelayer BICM unit 310, an enhanced layer BICM unit 320, an injection levelcontroller 330, a combiner 340, a power normalizer 345, and a timeinterleaver 350, a signaling generation unit 360, and a frame builder370.

Generally, a BICM device includes an error correction encoder, a bitinterleaver, and a symbol mapper. Each of the core layer BICM unit 310and the enhanced layer BICM unit 320 shown in FIG. 3 may include anerror correction encoder, a bit interleaver, and a symbol mapper. Inparticular, each of the error correction encoders (the core layer FECencoder, and the enhanced layer FEC encoder) shown in FIG. 3 may beformed by connecting a BCH encoder and an LDPC encoder in series. Inthis case, the input of the error correction encoder is input to the BCHencoder, the output of the BCH encoder is input to the LDPC encoder, andthe output of the LDPC encoder may be the output of the error correctionencoder.

As shown in FIG. 3, core layer data and enhanced layer data pass throughrespective different BICM units, and are then combined by the combiner340. That is, the term “Layered Division Multiplexing (LDM)” used hereinmay refer to combining the pieces of data of a plurality of layers intoa single piece of data using differences in power and then transmittingthe combined data.

That is, the core layer data passes through the core layer BICM unit310, the enhanced layer data passes through the enhanced layer BICM unit320 and then the injection level controller 330, and the core layer dataand the enhanced layer data are combined by the combiner 340. In thiscase, the enhanced layer BICM unit 320 may perform BICM encodingdifferent from that of the core layer BICM unit 310. That is, theenhanced layer BICM unit 320 may perform higher bit rate errorcorrection encoding or symbol mapping than the core layer BICM unit 310.Furthermore, the enhanced layer BICM unit 320 may perform less robusterror correction encoding or symbol mapping than the core layer BICMunit 310.

For example, the core layer error correction encoder may exhibit a lowerbit rate than the enhanced layer error correction encoder. In this case,the enhanced layer symbol mapper may be less robust than the core layersymbol mapper.

The combiner 340 may be viewed as functioning to combine the core layersignal and the enhanced layer signal at different power levels. In anembodiment, power level adjustment may be performed on the core layersignal rather than the enhanced layer signal. In this case, the power ofthe core layer signal may be adjusted to be higher than the power of theenhanced layer signal.

The core layer data may use forward error correction (FEC) code having alow code rate in order to perform robust reception, while the enhancedlayer data may use FEC code having a high code rate in order to achievea high data transmission rate.

That is, the core layer data may have a broader coverage than theenhanced layer data in the same reception environment.

The enhanced layer data having passed through the enhanced layer BICMunit 320 is adjusted in gain (or power) by the injection levelcontroller 330, and is combined with the core layer data by the combiner340.

That is, the injection level controller 330 generates a power-reducedenhanced layer signal by reducing the power of the enhanced layersignal. In this case, the magnitude of the signal adjusted by theinjection level controller 330 may be determined based on an injectionlevel. In this case, an injection level in the case where signal B isinserted into signal A may be defined by Equation 1 below:

$\begin{matrix}{{{Injectionlevel}({dB})} = {{- 10}\mspace{14mu} {\log_{10}\left( \frac{{Signal}\mspace{14mu} {power}\mspace{14mu} {of}\mspace{14mu} B}{{Signal}\mspace{14mu} {power}\mspace{14mu} {of}\mspace{14mu} A} \right)}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$

For example, assuming that the injection level is 3 dB when the enhancedlayer signal is inserted into the core layer signal, Equation 1 meansthat the enhanced layer signal has power corresponding to half of thepower of the core layer signal.

In this case, the injection level controller 330 may adjust the powerlevel of the enhanced layer signal from 0 dB to 25.0 dB in steps of 0.5dB or 1 dB.

In general, transmission power that is assigned to the core layer ishigher than transmission power that is assigned to the enhanced layer,which enables the receiver to decode core layer data first.

In this case, the combiner 340 may be viewed as generating a multiplexedsignal by combining the core layer signal with the power-reducedenhanced layer signal.

The signal obtained by the combination of the combiner 340 is providedto the power normalizer 345 so that the power of the signal can bereduced by a power level corresponding to an increase in power caused bythe combination of the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal,and then power adjustment is performed. That is, the power normalizer345 reduces the power of the signal, obtained by the multiplexing of thecombiner 340, to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal.Since the level of the combined signal is higher than the level of onelayer signal, the power normalizing of the power normalizer 345 isrequired in order to prevent amplitude clipping, etc. in the remainingportion of a broadcast signal transmission/reception system.

In this case, the power normalizer 345 may adjust the magnitude of thecombined signal to an appropriate value by multiplying the magnitude ofthe combined signal by the normalizing factor of Equation 2 below.Injection level information used to calculate Equation 2 below may betransferred to the power normalizer 345 via a signaling flow:

Normalizing factor=(√{square root over((1+10^(−Injection level (dB)/10)))})⁻¹  (2)

Assuming that the power levels of the core layer signal and the enhancedlayer signal are normalized to 1 when an enhanced layer signal S_(E) isinjected into a core layer signal S_(C) at a preset injection level, acombined signal may be expressed by S_(C)+αS_(E).

In this case, α is scaling factors corresponding to various injectionlevels. That is, the injection level controller 330 may correspond tothe scaling factor.

For example, when the injection level of an enhanced layer is 3 dB, acombined signal may be expressed by

$S_{C} = {\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}{S_{E}.}}$

Since the power of a combined signal (a multiplexed signal) increasescompared to a core layer signal, the power normalizer 345 needs tomitigate the increase in power.

The output of the power normalizer 345 may be expressed byβ(S_(C)+αS_(E)).

In this case, β is normalizing factors based on various injection levelsof the enhanced layer.

When the injection level of the enhanced layer is 3 dB, the power of thecombined signal is increased by 50% compared to that of the core layersignal. Accordingly, the output of the power normalizer 345 may beexpressed by

$\sqrt{\frac{2}{3}}{\left( {S_{C} + {\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}S_{E}}} \right).}$

Table 1 below lists scaling factors α and normalizing factors β forvarious injection levels (CL: Core Layer, EL: Enhanced Layer). Therelationships among the injection level, the scaling factor α and thenormalizing factor β may be defined by Equation 3 below:

$\begin{matrix}\left\{ \begin{matrix}{\alpha = 10^{(\frac{{- {Injection}}\mspace{14mu} {level}}{20})}} \\{\beta = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 + \alpha^{2}}}}\end{matrix} \right. & (3)\end{matrix}$

TABLE 1 EL Injection level relative to CL Scaling factor α Normalizingfactor β 3.0 dB 0.7079458 0.8161736 3.5 dB 0.6683439 0.8314061 4.0 dB0.6309573 0.8457262 4.5 dB 0.5956621 0.8591327 5.0 dB 0.56234130.8716346 5.5 dB 0.5308844 0.8832495 6.0 dB 0.5011872 0.8940022 6.5 dB0.4731513 0.9039241 7.0 dB 0.4466836 0.9130512 7.5 dB 0.42169650.9214231 8.0 dB 0.3981072 0.9290819 8.5 dB 0.3758374 0.9360712 9.0 dB0.3548134 0.9424353 9.5 dB 0.3349654 0.9482180 10.0 dB  0.31622780.9534626

That is, the power normalizer 345 corresponds to the normalizing factor,and reduces the power of the multiplexed signal by a level by which thecombiner 340 has increased the power.

In this case, each of the normalizing factor and the scaling factor maybe a rational number that is larger than 0 and smaller than 1.

In this case, the scaling factor may decrease as a reduction in powercorresponding to the injection level controller 330 becomes larger, andthe normalizing factor may increase as a reduction in powercorresponding to the injection level controller 330 becomes larger.

The power normalized signal passes through the time interleaver 350 fordistributing burst errors occurring over a channel.

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may be viewed as performinginterleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and theenhanced layer signal. That is, the core layer and the enhanced layershare the time interleaver, thereby preventing the unnecessary use ofmemory and also reducing latency at the receiver.

Although will be described later in greater detail, the enhanced layersignal may correspond to enhanced layer data restored based oncancellation corresponding to the restoration of core layer datacorresponding to the core layer signal. The combiner 340 may combine oneor more extension layer signals having power levels lower than those ofthe core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal with the core layersignal and the enhanced layer signal.

Meanwhile, L1 signaling information including injection levelinformation is encoded by the signaling generation unit 360 includingsignaling-dedicated BICM. In this case, the signaling generation unit360 may receive injection level information IL INFO from the injectionlevel controller 330, and may generate an L1 signaling signal.

In L1 signaling, L1 refers to Layer-1 in the lowest layer of the ISO 7layer model. In this case, the L1 signaling may be included in apreamble.

In general, the L1 signaling may include an FFT size, a guard intervalsize, etc., i.e., the important parameters of the OFDM transmitter, achannel code rate, modulation information, etc., i.e., BICM importantparameters. This L1 signaling signal is combined with data signal into abroadcast signal frame.

The frame builder 370 generates a broadcast signal frame by combiningthe L1 signaling signal with a data signal. In this case, the framebuilder 370 may generate the broadcast signal frame including a preamblefor signaling size information of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) and timeinterleaver information shared by the core layer signal and the enhancedlayer signal, using the time interleaved signal. In this case, thebroadcast signal frame may further include a bootstrap.

In this case, the frame builder 370 may generate the broadcast signalframe which includes a preamble for signaling time interleaverinformation corresponding to the time interleaver 350.

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may use one of time interleavergroups, a boundary between the time interleaver groups may be a boundarybetween Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of a core layer corresponding to thecore layer signal. That is, one of boundaries between Physical LayerPipes (PLPs) of the core layer may be a boundary between the timeinterleaver groups.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be signaled on thebasis of the core layer.

According to an embodiment, a part of the time interleaver informationmay be signaled on the basis of the core layer, and the other part ofthe time interleaver information may be signaled regardless of thelayers.

That is, the time interleaver information may be signaled based on thelayer identification information corresponding to the core layer.

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may correspond to a hybrid timeinterleaver. In this case, the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of a corelayer and an enhanced layer may include only complete FEC blocks.

In this case, the preamble may be for signaling information foridentifying a part of a FEC block in the enhanced layer in case that theboundary between the time interleaver groups does not correspond to aboundary between FEC blocks in the enhanced layer, the FEC blockcorresponding to the boundary between the time interleaver groups.

In this case, the information for identifying the part of the FEC blockmay include at least one of start position information of a PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP) in the core layer, start position information of aPhysical Layer Pipe (PLP) in the enhanced layer, modulation informationcorresponding to the enhanced layer, and FEC type informationcorresponding to the enhanced layer.

In this case, the start position information of the Physical Layer Pipe(PLP) may correspond to an index of a first data cell of the PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP).

In this case, the modulation information may be signaled only if the FECtype information satisfies a predetermined condition.

In this case, the enhanced layer signal may correspond to enhanced layerdata that is restored based on cancellation corresponding to restorationof core layer data corresponding to the core layer signal.

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may correspond to a convolutionaltime interleaver, the time interleaver groups may include the PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP) which includes an incomplete FEC block, and thepreamble may be for signaling start position information of a firstcomplete FEC block in the Physical Layer Pipe (PLP).

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may perform the interleaving byusing one of a plurality of operation modes.

In this case, the operations modes may include a first mode(L1D_plp_TI_mode=00) corresponding to no time interleaving, a secondmode (L1D_plp_TI_mode=01) for performing a Convolutional timeinterleaving and a third mode (L1D_plp_TI_mode=10) for performing aHybrid time interleaving.

In this case, the preamble may include a field indicating a startposition of a first complete FEC block corresponding to a currentPhysical Layer Pipe for the first mode and the second mode, and may notinclude the field indicating the start position of the first FEC blockfor the third mode.

In this case, the field indicating the start position of the first FECblock may be one of a first field (L1D_plp_fec_block_start) used in thefirst mode (L1D_plp_TI_mode=00) and a second field(L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start) used in the second mode(L1D_plp_TI_mode=01), and the first field and the second field may havedifferent lengths. In this case, the first field(L1D_plp_fec_block_start) may indicate a start position of a first FECblock starting in a current Physical Layer Pipe during a currentsubframe and the second field (L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start) may indicatea start position of a first complete FEC block of a current PhysicalLayer Pipe leaving a Convolutional time interleaver in current orsubsequent subframes. In this case, both the first field(L1D_plp_fec_block_start) and the second field(L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start) may be signaled based on afterinterleaving. In particular, in the case of the second field(L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start), the number of bits required for signalingmay increase when the signaling is performed based on afterinterleaving.

In this case, the length of the second field may be longer than thelength of the first field.

In this case, the length of the first field may be determined based on alength of a LDPC codeword and a modulation order and the length of thesecond field may be determined not only by the length of the LDPCcodeword and the modulation order but also by further considering adepth of a Convolutional time interleaver.

In this case, the length of the first field may be 15 bits and thelength of the second field may be 22 bits.

In this case, the first field and the second field may be separatelysignaled for each of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signaland an enhanced layer corresponding to the enhanced layer signal.

In this case, the frame builder 370 may include a bootstrap generatorconfigured to generate the bootstrap, a preamble generator configured togenerate the preamble, and a super-imposed payload generator configuredto generate a super-imposed payload corresponding to thetime-interleaved signal.

In this case, the bootstrap may be shorter than the preamble, and have afixed-length.

In this case, the bootstrap may include a symbol representing astructure of the preamble, the symbol corresponding to a fixed-lengthbit string representing a combination of a modulation scheme/code rate,a FFT size, a guard interval length and a pilot pattern of the preamble.

In this case, the symbol may correspond to a lookup table in which apreamble structure corresponding to a second FFT size is allocated priorto a preamble structure corresponding to a first FFT size, the secondFFT size being less than the first FFT size when the modulationscheme/code rates are the same, and a preamble structure correspondingto a second guard interval length is allocated prior to a preamblestructure corresponding to a first guard interval length, the secondguard interval length being longer than the first guard interval lengthwhen the modulation scheme/code rates are the same and the FFT sizes arethe same.

The broadcast signal frame may be transmitted via the OFDM transmitterthat is robust to a multi-path and the Doppler phenomenon. In this case,the OFDM transmitter may be viewed as being responsible for thetransmission signal generation of the next generation broadcastingsystem.

In this case, the preamble may include a PLP identification informationfor identifying Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs); and a layer identificationinformation for identifying layers corresponding to division of layers.

In this case, the PLP identification information and the layeridentification information may be included in the preamble as fieldsdifferent from each other.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be included in thepreamble on the basis of a core layer.

In this case, the preamble may selectively include an injection levelinformation corresponding to the injection level controller for each ofthe Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) based on a result of comparing (IF(j>0))the layer identification information with a predetermined value.

In this case, the preamble may include type information, start positioninformation and size information of the Physical Layer Pipes

In this case, the type information may be for identifying one among afirst type corresponding to a non-dispersed physical layer pipe and asecond type corresponding to a dispersed physical layer pipe.

In this case, the non-dispersed physical layer pipe may be assigned forcontiguous data cell indices, and the dispersed physical layer pipe mayinclude two or more subslices.

In this case, the type information may be selectively signaled accordingto a result of comparing the layer identification information with apredetermined value for each of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs).

In this case, the type information may be signaled only for the corelayer.

In this case, the start position information may be identical to anindex corresponding to the first data cell of the physical layer pipe.

In this case, the start position information may indicate the startposition of the physical layer pipe using cell addressing scheme.

In this case, the start position information may be included in thepreamble for each of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) without checking acondition of a conditional statement corresponding to the layeridentification information.

In this case, the size information may be generated based on the numberof data cells assigned to the physical layer pipe.

In this case, the size information may be included in the preamble foreach of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) without checking a condition ofa conditional statement corresponding to the layer identificationinformation.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of a broadcastsignal frame.

Referring to FIG. 4, a broadcast signal frame includes the bootstrap410, the preamble 420 and the super-imposed payload 430.

The frame shown in FIG. 4, may be included in the super-frame.

In this case, the broadcast signal frame may include at least one ofOFDM symbols. The broadcast signal frame may include a reference symbolor a pilot symbol.

The frame structure in which the Layered Division Multiplexing (LDM) isapplied includes the bootstrap 410, the preamble 420 and thesuper-imposed payload 430 as shown in FIG. 4.

In this case, the bootstrap 410 and the preamble 420 may be seen as thetwo hierarchical preambles.

In this case, the bootstrap 410 may have a shorter length than thepreamble 420 for the fast acquisition and detection. In this case, thebootstrap 410 may have a fixed-length. In this case, the bootstrap mayinclude a fixed-length symbol. For example, the bootstrap 410 mayconsist of four OFDM symbols each of which has 0.5 ms length so that thebootstrap 410 may correspond to the fixed time length of 2 ms.

In this case, the bootstrap 410 may have a fixed bandwidth, and thepreamble 420 and the super-imposed payload 430 may have a variablebandwidth wider than the bootstrap 410.

The preamble 420 may transmit detailed signaling information using arobust LDPC code. In this case, the length of the preamble 420 can bevaried according to the signaling information.

In this case, both the bootstrap 410 and the payload 430 may be seen asa common signal which is shared by a plurality of layers.

The super-imposed payload 430 may correspond to a multiplexed signal ofat least two layer signals. In this case, the super-imposed payload 430may be generated by combining a core layer payload and an enhanced layerpayload at different power levels. In this case, the core layer payloadmay include am in-band signaling section. In this case, the in-bandsignaling section may include signaling information for the enhancedlayer service.

In this case, the bootstrap 410 may include a symbol representing apreamble structure.

In this case, the symbol which included in the bootstrap forrepresenting the preamble structure may be set as shown in the Table 2below.

TABLE 2 Pilot pream- FFT GI Length Pattern ble_structure L1-Basic ModeSize (samples) (DX) 0 L1-Basic Mode 1 8192 2048 3 1 L1-Basic Mode 1 81921536 4 2 L1-Basic Mode 1 8192 1024 3 3 L1-Basic Mode 1 8192 768 4 4L1-Basic Mode 1 16384 4096 3 5 L1-Basic Mode 1 16384 3648 4 6 L1-BasicMode 1 16384 2432 3 7 L1-Basic Mode 1 16384 1536 4 8 L1-Basic Mode 116384 1024 6 9 L1-Basic Mode 1 16384 768 8 10 L1-Basic Mode 1 32768 48643 11 L1-Basic Mode 1 32768 3648 3 12 L1-Basic Mode 1 32768 3648 8 13L1-Basic Mode 1 32768 2432 6 14 L1-Basic Mode 1 32768 1536 8 15 L1-BasicMode 1 32768 1024 12 16 L1-Basic Mode 1 32768 768 16 17 L1-Basic Mode 28192 2048 3 18 L1-Basic Mode 2 8192 1536 4 19 L1-Basic Mode 2 8192 10243 20 L1-Basic Mode 2 8192 768 4 21 L1-Basic Mode 2 16384 4096 3 22L1-Basic Mode 2 16384 3648 4 23 L1-Basic Mode 2 16384 2432 3 24 L1-BasicMode 2 16384 1536 4 25 L1-Basic Mode 2 16384 1024 6 26 L1-Basic Mode 216384 768 8 27 L1-Basic Mode 2 32768 4864 3 28 L1-Basic Mode 2 327683648 3 29 L1-Basic Mode 2 32768 3648 8 30 L1-Basic Mode 2 32768 2432 631 L1-Basic Mode 2 32768 1536 8 32 L1-Basic Mode 2 32768 1024 12 33L1-Basic Mode 2 32768 768 16 34 L1-Basic Mode 3 8192 2048 3 35 L1-BasicMode 3 8192 1536 4 36 L1-Basic Mode 3 8192 1024 3 37 L1-Basic Mode 38192 768 4 38 L1-Basic Mode 3 16384 4096 3 39 L1-Basic Mode 3 16384 36484 40 L1-Basic Mode 3 16384 2432 3 41 L1-Basic Mode 3 16384 1536 4 42L1-Basic Mode 3 16384 1024 6 43 L1-Basic Mode 3 16384 768 8 44 L1-BasicMode 3 32768 4864 3 45 L1-Basic Mode 3 32768 3648 3 46 L1-Basic Mode 332768 3648 8 47 L1-Basic Mode 3 32768 2432 6 48 L1-Basic Mode 3 327681536 8 49 L1-Basic Mode 3 32768 1024 12 50 L1-Basic Mode 3 32768 768 1651 L1-Basic Mode 4 8192 2048 3 52 L1-Basic Mode 4 8192 1536 4 53L1-Basic Mode 4 8192 1024 3 54 L1-Basic Mode 4 8192 768 4 55 L1-BasicMode 4 16384 4096 3 56 L1-Basic Mode 4 16384 3648 4 57 L1-Basic Mode 416384 2432 3 58 L1-Basic Mode 4 16384 1536 4 59 L1-Basic Mode 4 163841024 6 60 L1-Basic Mode 4 16384 768 8 61 L1-Basic Mode 4 32768 4864 3 62L1-Basic Mode 4 32768 3648 3 63 L1-Basic Mode 4 32768 3648 8 64 L1-BasicMode 4 32768 2432 6 65 L1-Basic Mode 4 32768 1536 8 66 L1-Basic Mode 432768 1024 12 67 L1-Basic Mode 4 32768 768 16 68 L1-Basic Mode 5 81922048 3 69 L1-Basic Mode 5 8192 1536 4 70 L1-Basic Mode 5 8192 1024 3 71L1-Basic Mode 5 8192 768 4 72 L1-Basic Mode 5 16384 4096 3 73 L1-BasicMode 5 16384 3648 4 74 L1-Basic Mode 5 16384 2432 3 75 L1-Basic Mode 516384 1536 4 76 L1-Basic Mode 5 16384 1024 6 77 L1-Basic Mode 5 16384768 8 78 L1-Basic Mode 5 32768 4864 3 79 L1-Basic Mode 5 32768 3648 3 80L1-Basic Mode 5 32768 3648 8 81 L1-Basic Mode 5 32768 2432 6 82 L1-BasicMode 5 32768 1536 8 83 L1-Basic Mode 5 32768 1024 12 84 L1-Basic Mode 532768 768 16 85 L1-Basic Mode 6 8192 2048 3 86 L1-Basic Mode 6 8192 15364 87 L1-Basic Mode 6 8192 1024 3 88 L1-Basic Mode 6 8192 768 4 89L1-Basic Mode 6 16384 4096 3 90 L1-Basic Mode 6 16384 3648 4 91 L1-BasicMode 6 16384 2432 3 92 L1-Basic Mode 6 16384 1536 4 93 L1-Basic Mode 616384 1024 6 94 L1-Basic Mode 6 16384 768 8 95 L1-Basic Mode 6 327684864 3 96 L1-Basic Mode 6 32768 3648 3 97 L1-Basic Mode 6 32768 3648 898 L1-Basic Mode 6 32768 2432 6 99 L1-Basic Mode 6 32768 1536 8 100L1-Basic Mode 6 32768 1024 12 101 L1-Basic Mode 6 32768 768 16 102L1-Basic Mode 7 8192 2048 3 103 L1-Basic Mode 7 8192 1536 4 104 L1-BasicMode 7 8192 1024 3 105 L1-Basic Mode 7 8192 768 4 106 L1-Basic Mode 716384 4096 3 107 L1-Basic Mode 7 16384 3648 4 108 L1-Basic Mode 7 163842432 3 109 L1-Basic Mode 7 16384 1536 4 110 L1-Basic Mode 7 16384 1024 6111 L1-Basic Mode 7 16384 768 8 112 L1-Basic Mode 7 32768 4864 3 113L1-Basic Mode 7 32768 3648 3 114 L1-Basic Mode 7 32768 3648 8 115L1-Basic Mode 7 32768 2432 6 116 L1-Basic Mode 7 32768 1536 8 117L1-Basic Mode 7 32768 1024 12 118 L1-Basic Mode 7 32768 768 16 119Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved 120 Reserved Reserved ReservedReserved 121 Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved 122 Reserved ReservedReserved Reserved 123 Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved 124 ReservedReserved Reserved Reserved 125 Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved 126Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved 127 Reserved Reserved ReservedReserved

For example, a fixed-length symbol of 7-bit may be assigned forrepresenting the preamble structure shown in the Table 2.

The L1-Basic Mode 1, L1-Basic Mode 2 and L1-Basic Mode 3 in the Table 2may correspond to QPSK and 3/15 LDPC.

The L1 Basic Mode 4 in the Table 2 may correspond to 16-NUC (Non UniformConstellation) and 3/15 LDPC.

The L1 Basic Mode 5 in the Table 2 may correspond to 64-NUC (Non UniformConstellation) and 3/15 LDPC.

The L1-Basic Mode 6 and L1-Basic Mode 7 in the Table 2 may correspond to256-NUC (Non Uniform Constellation) and 3/15 LDPC. Hereafter, themodulation scheme/code rate represents a combination of a modulationscheme and a code rate such as QPSK and 3/15 LDPC.

The FFT size in the Table 2 may represent a size of Fast FourierTransform.

The GI length in the Table 2 may represent the Guard Interval Length,may represent a length of the guard interval which is not data in a timedomain. In this case, the guard interval is longer, the system is morerobust.

The Pilot Pattern in the Table 2 may represent Dx of the pilot pattern.Although it is not shown in the Table 2 explicitly, Dy may be all 1 inthe example of Table 2. For example, Dx=3 may mean that one pilot forchannel estimation is included in x-axis direction in every threesymbols. For example, Dy=1 may mean the pilot is included every time iny-axis direction.

As shown in the Table 2, the preamble structure corresponding to asecond modulation scheme/code rate which is more robust than a firstmodulation scheme/code rate may be allocated in the lookup table priorto the preamble structure corresponding to the first modulationscheme/code rate.

In this case, the being allocated prior to other preamble structure maymean being stored in the lookup table corresponding to a serial numberless than the serial number of the other preamble structure.

Furthermore, the preamble structure corresponding to a second FFT sizewhich is shorter than a first FFT size may be allocated in the lookuptable prior to the preamble structure corresponding to a first FFT sizein case of the same modulation scheme/code rate.

Furthermore, the preamble structure corresponding to a second guardinterval which is longer than a first guard interval may be allocated inthe lookup table prior to the preamble structure corresponding to thefirst guard interval in case of the same modulation scheme/code rate andthe same FFT size.

As shown in the Table 2, the setting of the order in which the preamblestructures are assigned in the lookup table may make the recognition ofthe preamble structure using the bootstrap more efficient.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the receiving process of thebroadcast signal frame shown in FIG. 4.

Referring to FIG. 5, the bootstrap 510 is detected and demodulated, andthe signaling information is reconstructed by the demodulation of thepreamble 520 using the demodulated information.

The core layer data 530 is demodulated using the signaling informationand the enhanced layer signal is demodulated through the cancellationprocess corresponding to the core layer data. In this case, thecancellation corresponding to the core layer data will be described indetail later.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another example of the receiving process ofthe broadcast signal frame shown in FIG. 4.

Referring to FIG. 6, the bootstrap 610 is detected and demodulated, andthe signaling information is reconstructed by the demodulation of thepreamble 620 using the demodulated information.

The core layer data 630 is demodulated using the signaling information.In this case, the core layer data 630 includes in-band signaling section650. The in-band signaling section 650 includes signaling informationfor the enhanced layer service. The bandwidth is used more efficientlythrough the in-band signaling section 650. In this case, the in-bandsignaling section 650 may be included in the core layer which is morerobust than the enhanced layer.

The basic signaling information and the information for the core layerservice may be transferred through the preamble 620 and the signalinginformation for the enhanced layer service may be transferred throughthe in-band signaling section 650 in the example of the FIG. 6.

The enhanced layer signal is demodulated through the cancellationprocess corresponding to the core layer data.

In this case, the signaling information may be L1 (Layer-1) signalinginformation. The L1 signaling information may include information forphysical layer parameters.

Referring to FIG. 4, a broadcast signal frame includes an L1 signalingsignal and a data signal. For example, the broadcast signal frame may bean ATSC 3.0 frame.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing another example of the apparatus forgenerating broadcast signal frame shown in FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 7, it can be seen that an apparatus for generatingbroadcast signal frame multiplexes data corresponding to N (N is anatural number that is equal to or larger than 1) extension layerstogether in addition to core layer data and enhanced layer data.

That is, the apparatus for generating the broadcast signal frame in FIG.7 includes N extension layer BICM units 410, . . . , 430 and injectionlevel controllers 440, . . . , 460 in addition to a core layer BICM unit310, an enhanced layer BICM unit 320, an injection level controller 330,a combiner 340, a power normalizer 345, a time interleaver 350, asignaling generation unit 360, and a frame builder 370.

The core layer BICM unit 310, enhanced layer BICM unit 320, injectionlevel controller 330, combiner 340, power normalizer 345, timeinterleaver 350, signaling generation unit 360 and frame builder 370shown in FIG. 7 have been described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

Each of the N extension layer BICM units 410, . . . , 430 independentlyperforms BICM encoding, and each of the injection level controllers 440,. . . , 460 performs power reduction corresponding to a correspondingextension layer, thereby enabling a power reduced extension layer signalto be combined with other layer signals via the combiner 340.

In this case, each of the error correction encoders of the extensionlayer BICM units 410, . . . , 430 may be formed by connecting a BCHencoder and an LDPC encoder in series.

In particular, it is preferred that a reduction in power correspondingto each of the injection level controllers 440, . . . , 460 be higherthan the reduction in power of the injection level controller 330. Thatis, a lower one of the injection level controllers 330, 440, . . . , 460shown in FIG. 7 may correspond to a larger reduction in power.

Injection level information provided by the injection level controllers330, 440 and 460 shown in FIG. 7 is included in the broadcast signalframe of the frame builder 370 via the signaling generation unit 360,and is then transmitted to the receiver. That is, the injection level ofeach layer is contained in the L1 signaling information and thentransferred to the receiver.

In the present invention, the adjustment of power may correspond toincreasing or decreasing the power of an input signal, and maycorrespond to increasing or decreasing the gain of an input signal.

The power normalizer 345 mitigates an increase in power caused by thecombination of a plurality of layer signals by means of the combiner340.

In the example shown in FIG. 7, the power normalizer 345 may adjust thepower of a signal to appropriate magnitude by multiplying the magnitudeof a signal, into which the signals of the respective layers arecombined, by a normalizing factor by using Equation 4 below:

$\begin{matrix}{{{Normalizing}\mspace{14mu} {factor}} = \left( \sqrt{\left( {1 + 10^{{- {Injection}}\mspace{14mu} {level}\mspace{11mu} {\# 1}{{({dB})}/10}} + 10^{{- {Injection}}\mspace{14mu} {level}\mspace{11mu} {\# 2}{{({dB})}/10}} + \ldots + 10^{{- {Injection}}\mspace{14mu} {level}\mspace{14mu} \# {({N + 1})}{{({dB})}/10}}} \right)} \right)^{- 1}} & (4)\end{matrix}$

The time interleaver 350 performs interleaving equally applied to thesignals of the layers by interleaving the signals combined by thecombiner 340.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing still an example of the signaldemultiplexer shown in FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 8, a signal demultiplexer according to an embodimentof the present invention includes a time deinterleaver 510, ade-normalizer 1010, core layer BICM decoder 520, an enhanced layersymbol extractor 530, a de-injection level controller 1020, and anenhanced layer BICM decoder 540.

In this case, the signal demultiplexer shown in FIG. 8 may correspond tothe apparatus for generating the broadcast signal frame shown in FIG. 3.

The time deinterleaver 510 receives a received signal from an OFDMreceiver for performing operations, such as time/frequencysynchronization, channel estimation and equalization, and performs anoperation related to the distribution of burst errors occurring over achannel. In this case, the L1 signaling information is decoded by theOFDM receiver first, and is then used for the decoding of data. Inparticular, the injection level information of the L1 signalinginformation may be transferred to the de-normalizer 1010 and thede-injection level controller 1020. In this case, the OFDM receiver maydecode the received signal in the form of a broadcast signal frame, forexample, an ATSC 3.0 frame, may extract the data symbol part of theframe, and may provide the extracted data symbol part to the timedeinterleaver 510. That is, the time deinterleaver 510 distributes bursterrors occurring over a channel by performing deinterleaving whilepassing a data symbol therethrough.

In this case, the time deinterleaver 510 may perform an operationcorresponding to the time interleaver. In this case, the timedeinterleaver 510 may perform the deinterleaving by using one of aplurality of operation modes and may perform the deinterleaving by usingthe time interleaver information signaled related to the operation ofthe time interleaver.

The de-normalizer 1010 corresponds to the power normalizer of thetransmitter, and increases power by a level by which the powernormalizer has decreased the power. That is, the de-normalizer 1010divides the received signal by the normalizing factor of Equation 2.

Although the de-normalizer 1010 is illustrated as adjusting the power ofthe output signal of the time interleaver 510 in the example shown inFIG. 8, the de-normalizer 1010 may be located before the timeinterleaver 510 so that power adjustment is performed beforeinterleaving in some embodiments.

That is, the de-normalizer 1010 may be viewed as being located before orafter the time interleaver 510 and amplifying the magnitude of a signalfor the purpose of the LLR calculation of the core layer symboldemapper.

The output of the time deinterleaver 510 (or the output of thede-normalizer 1010) is provided to the core layer BICM decoder 520, andthe core layer BICM decoder 520 restores core layer data.

In this case, the core layer BICM decoder 520 includes a core layersymbol demapper, a core layer bit deinterleaver, and a core layer errorcorrection decoder. The core layer symbol demapper calculates LLR valuesrelated to symbols, the core layer bit deinterleaver strongly mixes thecalculated LLR values with burst errors, and the core layer errorcorrection decoder corrects error occurring over a channel.

In this case, the core layer symbol demapper may calculate an LLR valuefor each bit using a predetermined constellation. In this case, theconstellation used by the core layer symbol mapper may vary depending onthe combination of the code rate and the modulation order that are usedby the transmitter.

In this case, the core layer bit deinterleaver may performdeinterleaving on calculated LLR values on an LDPC code word basis.

In particular, the core layer error correction decoder may output onlyinformation bits, or may output all bits in which information bits havebeen mixed with parity bits. In this case, the core layer errorcorrection decoder may output only information bits as core layer data,and may output all bits in which information bits have been mixed withparity bits to the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530.

The core layer error correction decoder may be formed by connecting acore layer LDPC decoder and a core layer BCH decoder in series. That is,the input of the core layer error correction decoder may be input to thecore layer LDPC decoder, the output of the core layer LDPC decoder maybe input to the core layer BCH decoder, and the output of the core layerBCH decoder may become the output of the core layer error correctiondecoder. In this case, the LDPC decoder performs LDPC decoding, and theBCH decoder performs BCH decoding.

Furthermore, the enhanced layer error correction decoder may be formedby connecting an enhanced layer LDPC decoder and an enhanced layer BCHdecoder in series. That is, the input of the enhanced layer errorcorrection decoder may be input to the enhanced layer LDPC decoder, theoutput of the enhanced layer LDPC decoder may be input to the enhancedlayer BCH decoder, and the output of the enhanced layer BCH decoder maybecome the output of the enhanced layer error correction decoder.

The enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 may receive all bits from thecore layer error correction decoder of the core layer BICM decoder 520,may extract enhanced layer symbols from the output signal of the timedeinterleaver 510 or de-normalizer 1010. In an embodiment, the enhancedlayer symbol extractor 530 may not be provided with all bits by theerror correction decoder of the core layer BICM decoder 520, but may beprovided with LDPC information bits or BCH information bits by the errorcorrection decoder of the core layer BICM decoder 520.

In this case, the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 includes a buffer,a subtracter, a core layer symbol mapper, and a core layer bitinterleaver. The buffer stores the output signal of the timedeinterleaver 510 or de-normalizer 1010. The core layer bit interleaverreceives the all bits (information bits+parity bits) of the core layerBICM decoder, and performs the same core layer bit interleaving as thetransmitter. The core layer symbol mapper generates core layer symbols,which are the same as the transmitter, from the interleaved signal. Thesubtracter obtains enhanced layer symbols by subtracting the outputsignal of the core layer symbol mapper from the signal stored in thebuffer, and transfers the enhanced layer symbols to the de-injectionlevel controller 1020. In particular, when LDPC information bits areprovided, the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 may further include acore layer LDPC encoder. Furthermore, when BCH information bits areprovided, the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 may further includenot only a core layer LDPC encoder but also a core layer BCH encoder.

In this case, the core layer LDPC encoder, core layer BCH encoder, corelayer bit interleaver and core layer symbol mapper included in theenhanced layer symbol extractor 530 may be the same as the LDPC encoder,BCH encoder, bit interleaver and symbol mapper of the core layerdescribed with reference to FIG. 3.

The de-injection level controller 1020 receives the enhanced layersymbols, and increases the power of the input signal by a level by whichthe injection level controller of the transmitter has decreased thepower. That is, the de-injection level controller 1020 amplifies theinput signal, and provides the amplified input signal to the enhancedlayer BICM decoder 540. For example, if at the transmitter, the powerused to combine the enhanced layer signal is lower than the power usedto combine the core layer signal by 3 dB, the de-injection levelcontroller 1020 functions to increase the power of the input signal by 3dB.

In this case, the de-injection level controller 1020 may be viewed asreceiving injection level information from the OFDM receiver andmultiplying an extracted enhanced layer signal by the enhanced layergain of Equation 5:

Enhanced layer gain=(√{square root over(10^(−injection level (dB)/10))})⁻¹  (5)

The enhanced layer BICM decoder 540 receives the enhanced layer symbolwhose power has been increased by the de-injection level controller1020, and restores the enhanced layer data.

In this case, the enhanced layer BICM decoder 540 may include anenhanced layer symbol demapper, an enhanced layer bit deinterleaver, andan enhanced layer error correction decoder. The enhanced layer symboldemapper calculates LLR values related to the enhanced layer symbols,the enhanced layer bit deinterleaver strongly mixes the calculated LLRvalues with burst errors, and the enhanced layer error correctiondecoder corrects error occurring over a channel.

Although the enhanced layer BICM decoder 540 performs a task similar toa task that is performed by the core layer BICM decoder 520, theenhanced layer LDPC decoder generally performs LDPC decoding related toa code rate equal to or higher than 6/15.

For example, the core layer may use LDPC code having a code rate equalto or higher than 5/15, and the enhanced layer may use LDPC code havinga code rate equal to or higher than 6/15. In this case, in a receptionenvironment in which enhanced layer data can be decoded, core layer datamay be decoded using only a small number of LDPC decoding iterations.Using this characteristic, in the hardware of the receiver, a singleLDPC decoder is shared by the core layer and the enhanced layer, andthus the cost required to implement the hardware can be reduced. In thiscase, the core layer LDPC decoder may use only some time resources (LDPCdecoding iterations), and the enhanced layer LDPC decoder may use mosttime resources.

That is, the signal demultiplexer shown in FIG. 8 restores core layerdata first, leaves only the enhanced layer symbols by cancellation thecore layer symbols in the received signal symbols, and then restoresenhanced layer data by increasing the power of the enhanced layersymbols. As described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 5, signalscorresponding to respective layers are combined at different powerlevels, and thus data restoration having the smallest error can beachieved only if restoration starts with a signal combined with thestrongest power.

Accordingly, in the example shown in FIG. 8, the signal demultiplexermay include the time deinterleaver 510 configured to generate atime-deinterleaved signal by applying time deinterleaving to a receivedsignal; a de-normalizer 1010 configured to increase the power of thereceived signal or the time-deinterleaved signal by a levelcorresponding to a reduction in power by the power normalizer of thetransmitter; the core layer BICM decoder 520 configured to restore corelayer data from the signal power-adjusted by the de-normalizer 1010; theenhanced layer symbol extractor 530 configured to extract an enhancedlayer signal by performing cancellation, corresponding to the core layerdata, on the signal power-adjusted by the de-normalizer 1010 using theoutput signal of the core layer FEC decoder of the core layer BICMdecoder 520; a de-injection level controller 1020 configured to increasethe power of the enhanced layer signal by a level corresponding to areduction in power by the injection power level controller of thetransmitter; and an enhanced layer BICM decoder 540 configured torestore enhanced layer data using the output signal of the de-injectionlevel controller 1020.

In this case, the enhanced layer symbol extractor may receive all codewords from the core layer LDPC decoder of the core layer BICM decoder,and may immediately perform bit interleaving on the all code words.

In this case, the enhanced layer symbol extractor may receiveinformation bits from the core layer LDPC decoder of the core layer BICMdecoder, and may perform core layer LDPC encoding and then bitinterleaving on the information bits.

In this case, the enhanced layer symbol extractor may receiveinformation bits from the core layer BCH decoder of the core layer BICMdecoder, and may perform core layer BCH encoding and core layer LDPCencoding and then bit interleaving on the information bits.

In this case, the de-normalizer and the de-injection level controllermay receive injection level information IL INFO provided based on L1signaling, and may perform power control based on the injection levelinformation.

In this case, the core layer BICM decoder may have a bit rate lower thanthat of the enhanced layer BICM decoder, and may be more robust than theenhanced layer BICM decoder.

In this case, the de-normalizer may correspond to the reciprocal of thenormalizing factor.

In this case, the de-injection level controller may correspond to thereciprocal of the scaling factor.

In this case, the enhanced layer data may be restored based oncancellation corresponding to the restoration of core layer datacorresponding to the core layer signal.

In this case, the signal demultiplexer further may include one or moreextension layer symbol extractors each configured to extract anextension layer signal by performing cancellation corresponding toprevious layer data; one or more de-injection level controllers eachconfigured to increase the power of the extension layer signal by alevel corresponding to a reduction in power by the injection levelcontroller of the transmitter; and one or more extension layer BICMdecoders configured to restore one or more pieces of extension layerdata using the output signals of the one or more de-injection levelcontrollers.

From the configuration shown in FIG. 8, it can be seen that a signaldemultiplexing method according to an embodiment of the presentinvention includes generating a time-deinterleaved signal by applyingtime deinterleaving to a received signal; increasing the power of thereceived signal or the time-deinterleaved signal by a levelcorresponding to a reduction in power by the power normalizer of thetransmitter; restoring core layer data from the power-adjusted signal;extracting an enhanced layer signal by performing cancellation,corresponding to the core layer data, on the power-adjusted signal;increasing the power of the enhanced layer signal by a levelcorresponding to a reduction in power by the injection power levelcontroller of the transmitter; and restoring enhanced layer data usingthe enhanced layer data.

In this case, extracting the enhanced layer signal may include receivingall code words from the core layer LDPC decoder of the core layer BICMdecoder, and immediately performing bit interleaving on the all codewords.

In this case, extracting the enhanced layer signal may include receivinginformation bits from the core layer LDPC decoder of the core layer BICMdecoder, and performing core layer LDPC encoding and then bitinterleaving on the information bits.

In this case, extracting the enhanced layer signal may include receivinginformation bits from the core layer BCH decoder of the core layer BICMdecoder, and performing core layer BCH encoding and core layer LDPCencoding and then bit interleaving on the information bits.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of the core layer BICMdecoder 520 and the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 shown in FIG. 8.

Referring to FIG. 9, the core layer BICM decoder 520 includes a corelayer symbol demapper, a core layer bit deinterleaver, a core layer LDPCdecoder, and a core layer BCH decoder.

That is, in the example shown in FIG. 9, the core layer error correctiondecoder includes the core layer LDPC decoder and the core layer BCHdecoder.

Furthermore, in the example shown in FIG. 9, the core layer LDPC decoderprovides all code words, including parity bits, to the enhanced layersymbol extractor 530. That is, although the LDPC decoder generallyoutputs only the information bits of all the LDPC code words, the LDPCdecoder may output all the code words.

In this case, although the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 may beeasily implemented because it does not need to include a core layer LDPCencoder or a core layer BCH encoder, there is a possibility that aresidual error may remain in the LDPC code parity part.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing another example of the core layerBICM decoder 520 and the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 shown inFIG. 8.

Referring to FIG. 10, the core layer BICM decoder 520 includes a corelayer symbol demapper, a core layer bit deinterleaver, a core layer LDPCdecoder, and a core layer BCH decoder.

That is, in the example shown in FIG. 10, the core layer errorcorrection decoder includes the core layer LDPC decoder and the corelayer BCH decoder.

Furthermore, in the example shown in FIG. 10, the core layer LDPCdecoder provides information bits, excluding parity bits, to theenhanced layer symbol extractor 530.

In this case, although the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 does notneed to include a core layer BCH encoder, it must include a core layerLDPC encoder.

A residual error that may remain in the LDPC code parity part may beeliminated more desirably in the example shown in FIG. 10 than in theexample shown in FIG. 9.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing still another example of the corelayer BICM decoder 520 and the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 shownin FIG. 8.

Referring to FIG. 11, the core layer BICM decoder 520 includes a corelayer symbol demapper, a core layer bit deinterleaver, a core layer LDPCdecoder, and a core layer BCH decoder.

That is, in the example shown in FIG. 11, the core layer errorcorrection decoder includes the core layer LDPC decoder and the corelayer BCH decoder.

In the example shown in FIG. 11, the output of the core layer BCHdecoder corresponding to core layer data is provided to the enhancedlayer symbol extractor 530.

In this case, although the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 has highcomplexity because it must include both a core layer LDPC encoder and acore layer BCH encoder, it guarantees higher performance than those inthe examples of FIGS. 9 and 10.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing another example of the signaldemultiplexer shown in FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 12, a signal demultiplexer according to an embodimentof the present invention includes a time deinterleaver 510, ade-normalizer 1010, a core layer BICM decoder 520, an enhanced layersymbol extractor 530, an enhanced layer BICM decoder 540, one or moreextension layer symbol extractors 650 and 670, one or more extensionlayer BICM decoders 660 and 680, and de-injection level controllers1020, 1150 and 1170.

In this case, the signal demultiplexer shown in FIG. 12 may correspondto the apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame shown in FIG. 7.

The time deinterleaver 510 receives a received signal from an OFDMreceiver for performing operations, such as synchronization, channelestimation and equalization, and performs an operation related to thedistribution of burst errors occurring over a channel. In this case, L1signaling information may be decoded by the OFDM receiver first, andthen may be used for data decoding. In particular, the injection levelinformation of the L1 signaling information may be transferred to thede-normalizer 1010 and the de-injection level controllers 1020, 1150 and1170.

In this case, the de-normalizer 1010 may obtain the injection levelinformation of all layers, may obtain a de-normalizing factor usingEquation 6 below, and may multiply the input signal with thede-normalizing factor:

$\begin{matrix}{{{De}\text{-}{normalizing}\mspace{14mu} {factor}} = {\left( {{normalizing}\mspace{14mu} {factor}} \right)^{- 1} = \left( \sqrt{\left( {1 + 10^{{- {Injection}}\mspace{11mu} {level}\mspace{11mu} {\# 1}{{({dB})}/10}} + 10^{{- {Injection}}\mspace{11mu} {level}\mspace{11mu} {\# 2}{{({dB})}/10}} + \ldots + 10^{{- {Injection}}\mspace{11mu} {level}\mspace{11mu} \# {({N + 1})}{{({dB})}/10}}} \right)} \right)}} & (6)\end{matrix}$

That is, the de-normalizing factor is the reciprocal of the normalizingfactor expressed by Equation 4 above.

In an embodiment, when the N1 signaling includes not only injectionlevel information but also normalizing factor information, thede-normalizer 1010 may simply obtain a de-normalizing factor by takingthe reciprocal of a normalizing factor without the need to calculate thede-normalizing factor using an injection level.

The de-normalizer 1010 corresponds to the power normalizer of thetransmitter, and increases power by a level by which the powernormalizer has decreased the power.

Although the de-normalizer 1010 is illustrated as adjusting the power ofthe output signal of the time interleaver 510 in the example shown inFIG. 12, the de-normalizer 1010 may be located before the timeinterleaver 510 so that power adjustment can be performed beforeinterleaving in an embodiment.

That is, the de-normalizer 1010 may be viewed as being located before orafter the time interleaver 510 and amplifying the magnitude of a signalfor the purpose of the LLR calculation of the core layer symboldemapper.

The output of the time deinterleaver 510 (or the output of thede-normalizer 1010) is provided to the core layer BICM decoder 520, andthe core layer BICM decoder 520 restores core layer data.

In this case, the core layer BICM decoder 520 includes a core layersymbol demapper, a core layer bit deinterleaver, and a core layer errorcorrection decoder. The core layer symbol demapper calculates LLR valuesrelated to symbols, the core layer bit deinterleaver strongly mixes thecalculated LLR values with burst errors, and the core layer errorcorrection decoder corrects error occurring over a channel.

In particular, the core layer error correction decoder may output onlyinformation bits, or may output all bits in which information bits havebeen combined with parity bits. In this case, the core layer errorcorrection decoder may output only information bits as core layer data,and may output all bits in which information bits have been combinedwith parity bits to the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530.

The core layer error correction decoder may be formed by connecting acore layer LDPC decoder and a core layer BCH decoder in series. That is,the input of the core layer error correction decoder may be input to thecore layer LDPC decoder, the output of the core layer LDPC decoder maybe input to the core layer BCH decoder, and the output of the core layerBCH decoder may become the output of the core layer error correctiondecoder. In this case, the LDPC decoder performs LDPC decoding, and theBCH decoder performs BCH decoding.

The enhanced layer error correction decoder may be also formed byconnecting an enhanced layer LDPC decoder and an enhanced layer BCHdecoder in series. That is, the input of the enhanced layer errorcorrection decoder may be input to the enhanced layer LDPC decoder, theoutput of the enhanced layer LDPC decoder may be input to the enhancedlayer BCH decoder, and the output of the enhanced layer BCH decoder maybecome the output of the enhanced layer error correction decoder.

Moreover, the extension layer error correction decoder may be alsoformed by connecting an extension layer LDPC decoder and an extensionlayer BCH decoder in series. That is, the input of the extension layererror correction decoder may be input to the extension layer LDPCdecoder, the output of the extension layer LDPC decoder may be input tothe extension layer BCH decoder, and the output of the extension layerBCH decoder may become the output of the extension layer errorcorrection decoder.

In particular, the tradeoff between the complexity of implementation,regarding which of the outputs of the error correction decoders will beused, which has been described with reference to FIGS. 9, 10 and 11, andperformance is applied to not only the core layer BICM decoder 520 andenhanced layer symbol extractor 530 of FIG. 12 but also the extensionlayer symbol extractors 650 and 670 and the extension layer BICMdecoders 660 and 680.

The enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 may receive the all bits fromthe core layer BICM decoder 520 of the core layer error correctiondecoder, and may extract enhanced layer symbols from the output signalof the time deinterleaver 510 or the denormalizer 1010. In anembodiment, the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 may not receive allbits from the error correction decoder of the core layer BICM decoder520, but may receive LDPC information bits or BCH information bits.

In this case, the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 includes a buffer,a subtracter, a core layer symbol mapper, and a core layer bitinterleaver. The buffer stores the output signal of the timedeinterleaver 510 or de-normalizer 1010. The core layer bit interleaverreceives the all bits (information bits+parity bits) of the core layerBICM decoder, and performs the same core layer bit interleaving as thetransmitter. The core layer symbol mapper generates core layer symbols,which are the same as the transmitter, from the interleaved signal. Thesubtracter obtains enhanced layer symbols by subtracting the outputsignal of the core layer symbol mapper from the signal stored in thebuffer, and transfers the enhanced layer symbols to the de-injectionlevel controller 1020.

In this case, the core layer bit interleaver and core layer symbolmapper included in the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 may be thesame as the core layer bit interleaver and the core layer symbol mappershown in FIG. 7.

The de-injection level controller 1020 receives the enhanced layersymbols, and increases the power of the input signal by a level by whichthe injection level controller of the transmitter has decreased thepower. That is, the de-injection level controller 1020 amplifies theinput signal, and provides the amplified input signal to the enhancedlayer BICM decoder 540.

The enhanced layer BICM decoder 540 receives the enhanced layer symbolwhose power has been increased by the de-injection level controller1020, and restores the enhanced layer data.

In this case, the enhanced layer BICM decoder 540 may include anenhanced layer symbol demapper, an enhanced layer bit deinterleaver, andan enhanced layer error correction decoder. The enhanced layer symboldemapper calculates LLR values related to the enhanced layer symbols,the enhanced layer bit deinterleaver strongly mixes the calculated LLRvalues with burst errors, and the enhanced layer error correctiondecoder corrects error occurring over a channel.

In particular, the enhanced layer error correction decoder may outputonly information bits, and may output all bits in which information bitshave been combined with parity bits. In this case, the enhanced layererror correction decoder may output only information bits as enhancedlayer data, and may output all bits in which information bits have beenmixed with parity bits to the extension layer symbol extractor 650.

The extension layer symbol extractor 650 receives all bits from theenhanced layer error correction decoder of the enhanced layer BICMdecoder 540, and extracts extension layer symbols from the output signalof the de-injection level controller 1020.

In this case, the de-injection level controller 1020 may amplify thepower of the output signal of the subtracter of the enhanced layersymbol extractor 530.

In this case, the extension layer symbol extractor 650 includes abuffer, a subtracter, an enhanced layer symbol mapper, and an enhancedlayer bit interleaver. The buffer stores the output signal of thede-injection level controller 1020. The enhanced layer bit interleaverreceives the all bits information (bits+parity bits) of the enhancedlayer BICM decoder, and performs enhanced layer bit interleaving that isthe same as that of the transmitter. The enhanced layer symbol mappergenerates enhanced layer symbols, which are the same as those of thetransmitter, from the interleaved signal. The subtracter obtainsextension layer symbols by subtracting the output signal of the enhancedlayer symbol mapper from the signal stored in the buffer, and transfersthe extension layer symbols to the extension layer BICM decoder 660.

In this case, the enhanced layer bit interleaver and the enhanced layersymbol mapper included in the extension layer symbol extractor 650 maybe the same as the enhanced layer bit interleaver and the enhanced layersymbol mapper shown in FIG. 7.

The de-injection level controller 1150 increases power by a level bywhich the injection level controller of a corresponding layer hasdecreased the power at the transmitter.

In this case, the de-injection level controller may be viewed asperforming the operation of multiplying the extension layer gain ofEquation 7 below. In this case, a 0-th injection level may be consideredto be 0 dB:

$\begin{matrix}{{n\text{-}{th}\mspace{14mu} {extensionlayer}\mspace{14mu} {gain}} = \frac{10^{{- {Injectionlevel}}\; \# {({n - 1})}{{({dB})}/10}}}{10^{{- {Injectionlevel}}\# {{n{({dB})}}/10}}}} & (7)\end{matrix}$

The extension layer BICM decoder 660 receives the extension layersymbols whose power has been increased by the de-injection levelcontroller 1150, and restores extension layer data.

In this case, the extension layer BICM decoder 660 may include anextension layer symbol demapper, an extension layer bit deinterleaver,and an extension layer error correction decoder. The extension layersymbol demapper calculates LLR values related to the extension layersymbols, the extension layer bit deinterleaver strongly mixes thecalculated LLR values with burst errors, and the extension layer errorcorrection decoder corrects error occurring over a channel.

In particular, each of the extension layer symbol extractor and theextension layer BICM decoder may include two or more extractors ordecoders if two or more extension layers are present.

That is, in the example shown in FIG. 12, the extension layer errorcorrection decoder of the extension layer BICM decoder 660 may outputonly information bits, and may output all bits in which information bitshave been combined with parity bits. In this case, the extension layererror correction decoder outputs only information bits as extensionlayer data, and may output all bits in which information bits have beenmixed with parity bits to the subsequent extension layer symbolextractor 670.

The configuration and operation of the extension layer symbol extractor670, the extension layer BICM decoder 680 and the de-injection levelcontroller 1170 can be easily understood from the configuration andoperation of the above-described extension layer symbol extractor 650,extension layer BICM decoder 660 and de-injection level controller 1150.

A lower one of the de-injection level controllers 1020, 1150 and 1170shown in FIG. 12 may correspond to a larger increase in power. That is,the de-injection level controller 1150 may increase power more than thede-injection level controller 1020, and the de-injection levelcontroller 1170 may increase power more than the de-injection levelcontroller 1150.

It can be seen that the signal demultiplexer shown in FIG. 12 restorescore layer data first, restores enhanced layer data using thecancellation of core layer symbols, and restores extension layer datausing the cancellation of enhanced layer symbols. Two or more extensionlayers may be provided, in which case restoration starts with anextension layer combined at a higher power level.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing in an increase in power attributable to thecombination of a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal.

Referring to FIG. 13, it can be seen that when a multiplexed signal isgenerated by combining a core layer signal with an enhanced layer signalwhose power has been reduced by an injection level, the power level ofthe multiplexed signal is higher than the power level of the core layersignal or the enhanced layer signal.

In this case, the injection level that is adjusted by the injectionlevel controllers shown in FIGS. 3 and 7 may be adjusted from 0 dB to25.0 dB in steps of 0.5 dB or 1 dB. When the injection level is 3.0 dB,the power of the enhanced layer signal is lower than that of the corelayer signal by 3 dB. When the injection level is 10.0 dB, the power ofthe enhanced layer signal is lower than that of the core layer signal by10 dB. This relationship may be applied not only between a core layersignal and an enhanced layer signal but also between an enhanced layersignal and an extension layer signal or between extension layer signals.

The power normalizers shown in FIGS. 3 and 7 may adjust the power levelafter the combination, thereby solving problems, such as the distortionof the signal, that may be caused by an increase in power attributableto the combination.

FIG. 14 is an operation flowchart showing a method of generatingbroadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the presentinvention.

Referring to FIG. 14, in the method according to the embodiment of thepresent invention, BICM is applied to core layer data at step S1210.

Furthermore, in the method according to the embodiment of the presentinvention, BICM is applied to enhanced layer data at step S1220.

The BICM applied at step S1220 may be different from the BICM applied tostep S1210. In this case, the BICM applied at step S1220 may be lessrobust than the BICM applied to step S1210. In this case, the bit rateof the BICM applied at step S1220 may be less robust than that of theBICM applied to step S1210.

In this case, an enhanced layer signal may correspond to the enhancedlayer data that is restored based on cancellation corresponding to therestoration of the core layer data corresponding to a core layer signal.

Furthermore, in the method according to the embodiment of the presentinvention, a power-reduced enhanced layer signal is generated byreducing the power of the enhanced layer signal at step S1230.

In this case, at step S1230, an injection level may be changed from 00dB to 25.0 dB in steps of 0.5 dB or 1 dB.

Furthermore, in the method according to the embodiment of the presentinvention, a multiplexed signal is generated by combining the core layersignal and the power-reduced enhanced layer signal at step S1240.

That is, at step S1240, the core layer signal and the enhanced layersignal are combined at different power levels so that the power level ofthe enhanced layer signal is lower than the power level of the corelayer signal.

In this case, at step S1240, one or more extension layer signals havinglower power levels than the core layer signal and the enhanced layersignal may be combined with the core layer signal and the enhanced layersignal.

Furthermore, in the method according to the embodiment of the presentinvention, the power of the multiplexed signal is reduced at step S1250.

In this case, at step S1250, the power of the multiplexed signal may bereduced to the power of the core layer signal. In this case, at stepS1250, the power of the multiplexed signal may be reduced by a level bywhich the power has been increased at step S1240.

Furthermore, in the method according to the embodiment of the presentinvention, a time-interleaved signal is generated by performing timeinterleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and theenhanced layer signal is performed at step S1260.

In this case, the step S1260 may use one of time interleaver groups, anda boundary between the time interleaver groups may be a boundary betweenPhysical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of a core layer corresponding to the corelayer signal.

In this case, the step S1260 may use a hybrid time interleaver forperforming the interleaving. In this case, Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs)of a core layer and an enhanced layer may include only complete FECblocks.

In this case, the step S1260 may use a convolutional time interleaverfor performing the interleaving, the time interleaver groups may includethe Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) which includes an incomplete FEC block,and the preamble may be for signaling start position information of afirst complete FEC block in the Physical Layer Pipe (PLP).

In this case, the step S1260 may be performed by using one of aplurality of operation modes.

In this case, the operation modes may include a first mode correspondingto no time interleaving, a second mode for performing a Convolutionaltime interleaving and a third mode for performing a Hybrid timeinterleaving.

Furthermore, in the method according to the embodiment of the presentinvention, a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signalingtime interleaver information corresponding to the interleaving isgenerated at step S1270.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be signaled on thebasis of the core layer.

In this case, the preamble may be for signaling information foridentifying a part of a FEC block of the enhanced layer in case that theboundary between the time interleaver groups does not correspond to aboundary between FEC blocks of the enhanced layer, the FEC blockcorresponding to the boundary between the time interleaver groups.

In this case, the information for identifying the part of the FEC blockmay include at least one of start position information of a PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP) in the core layer, start position information of aPhysical Layer Pipe (PLP) in the enhanced layer, modulation informationcorresponding to the enhanced layer, and FEC type informationcorresponding to the enhanced layer.

In this case, the start position information of the Physical Layer Pipe(PLP) may correspond to an index of a first data cell of the PhysicalLayer Pipe (PLP).

In this case, the modulation information may be signaled only if the FECtype information satisfies a predetermined condition.

In this case, the enhanced layer signal corresponds to enhanced layerdata that may be restored based on cancellation corresponding torestoration of core layer data corresponding to the core layer signal.

In this case, the step S1270 may include generating the bootstrap;generating the preamble; and generating a super-imposed payloadcorresponding to the time-interleaved signal.

In this case, the preamble may include a PLP identification informationfor identifying Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs); and a layer identificationinformation for identifying layers corresponding to division of layers.

In this case, the PLP identification information and the layeridentification information may be included in the preamble as fieldsdifferent from each other.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be selectivelyincluded in the preamble for each of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs)based on a result of comparing (IF(j>0)) the layer identificationinformation with a predetermined value.

In this case, the preamble may selectively include an injection levelinformation corresponding to the injection level controller for each ofthe Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) based on a result of comparing (IF(j>0))the layer identification information with a predetermined value.

In this case, the bootstrap may be shorter than the preamble, and have afixed-length.

In this case, the bootstrap may include a symbol representing astructure of the preamble, the symbol corresponding to a fixed-lengthbit string representing a combination of a modulation scheme/code rate,a FFT size, a guard interval length and a pilot pattern of the preamble.

In this case, the symbol may correspond to a lookup table in which apreamble structure corresponding to a second FFT size is allocated priorto a preamble structure corresponding to a first FFT size, the secondFFT size being less than the first FFT size when the modulationscheme/code rates are the same, and a preamble structure correspondingto a second guard interval length is allocated prior to a preamblestructure corresponding to a first guard interval length, the secondguard interval length being longer than the first guard interval lengthwhen the modulation scheme/code rates are the same and the FFT sizes arethe same.

In this case, the broadcast signal frame may be an ATSC 3.0 frame.

In this case, the L1 signaling information may include injection levelinformation and/or normalizing factor information.

In this case, the preamble may include type information, start positioninformation and size information of the Physical Layer Pipes

In this case, the type information may be for identifying one among afirst type corresponding to a non-dispersed physical layer pipe and asecond type corresponding to a dispersed physical layer pipe.

In this case, the non-dispersed physical layer pipe may be assigned forcontiguous data cell indices, and the dispersed physical layer pipe mayinclude two or more subslices.

In this case, the type information may be selectively signaled accordingto a result of comparing the layer identification information with apredetermined value for each of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs).

In this case, the type information may be signaled only for the corelayer.

In this case, the start position information may be identical to anindex corresponding to the first data cell of the physical layer pipe.

In this case, the start position information may indicate the startposition of the physical layer pipe using cell addressing scheme.

In this case, the start position information may be included in thepreamble for each of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) without checking acondition of a conditional statement corresponding to the layeridentification information.

In this case, the size information may be generated based on the numberof data cells assigned to the physical layer pipe.

In this case, the size information may be included in the preamble foreach of the Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) without checking a condition ofa conditional statement corresponding to the layer identificationinformation.

In this case, the preamble may include a field indicating a startposition of a first complete FEC block corresponding to a currentPhysical Layer Pipe for the first mode and the second mode, and may notinclude the field indicating the start position of the first FEC blockfor the third mode.

In this case, the field indicating the start position of the first FECblock may be one of a first field used in the first mode and a secondfield used in the second mode, and the first field and the second fieldmay have different lengths.

In this case, the length of the second field may be longer than thelength of the first field.

In this case, the length of the first field may be determined based on alength of a LDPC codeword and a modulation order and the length of thesecond field may be determined not only by the length of the LDPCcodeword and the modulation order but also by further considering adepth of a Convolutional time interleaver.

In this case, the length of the first field may be 15 bits and thelength of the second field may be 22 bits.

In this case, the first field and the second field may be separatelysignaled for each of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signaland an enhanced layer corresponding to the enhanced layer signal.

Although not explicitly shown in FIG. 14, the method may further includethe step of generating signaling information including injection levelinformation corresponding to step S1230. In this case, the signalinginformation may be L1 signaling information.

The method of generating broadcast signal frame shown in FIG. 14 maycorrespond to step S210 shown in FIG. 2.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a structure of a super-frame which includesbroadcast signal frames according to an embodiment of the presentinvention.

Referring to FIG. 15, the super-frame based on the Layered DivisionMultiplexing (LDM) configures at least one of frame, and each frameconfigures at least one of OFDM symbol.

In this case, each OFDM symbol may start with at least one preamblesymbol. Moreover, the frame may include a reference symbol or a pilotsymbol.

The super-frame 1510 illustrated in FIG. 15, may include a LDM frame1520, a single layer frame without LDM 1530 and a Future Extension Frame(FEF) for future extensibility 1540 and may be configured using TimeDivision Multiplexing (TDM).

The LDM frame 1520 may include an Upper Layer (UL) 1553 and a LowerLayer (LL) 1555 when two layers are applied.

In this case, the upper layer 1553 may correspond to the core layer andthe lower layer 1555 may correspond to the enhanced layer.

In this case, the LDM frame 1520 which includes the upper layer 1553 andthe lower layer 1555 may a bootstrap 1552 and a preamble 1551.

In this case, the upper layer data and the lower layer data may sharethe time interleaver for reducing complexity and memory size and may usethe same frame length and FFT size.

Moreover, the single-layer frame 1530 may include the bootstrap 1562 andthe preamble 1561.

In this case, the single-layer frame 1530 may use a FFT size, timeinterleaver and frame length different from the LDM frame 1520. In thiscase, the single-layer frame 1530 may be multiplexed with the LDM frame1520 in the super-frame 1510 based on TDM scheme.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of a LDM frame using LDM of twolayers and multiple-physical layer pipes.

Referring to FIG. 16, the LDM frame starts with a bootstrap signalincluding version information of the system or general signalinginformation. The L1 signaling signal which includes code rate,modulation information, number information of physical layer pipes mayfollows the bootstrap as a preamble.

The common Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) in a form of burst may betransferred following the preamble (L1 SIGNAL). In this case, the commonphysical layer pipe may transfer data which can be shared with otherphysical layer pipes in the frame.

The Multiple-Physical Layer Pipes for servicing broadcasting signalswhich are different from each other may be transferred using LDM schemeof two layers. In this case, the service (720p or 1080p HD, etc.) whichneeds robust reception performance such as indoor/mobile may use thecore layer (upper layer) data physical layer pipes. In this case, thefixed reception service (4K-UHD or multiple HD, etc.) which needs hightransfer rate may use the enhanced layer (lower layer) data physicallayer pipes.

If the multiple physical layer pipes are layer-division-multiplexed, itcan be seen that the total number of physical layer pipes increases.

In this case, the core layer data physical layer pipe and the enhancedlayer data physical layer pipe may share the time interleaver forreducing complexity and memory size. In this case, the core layer dataphysical layer pipe and the enhanced layer data physical layer pipe mayhave the same physical layer pipe size (PLP size), and may have physicallayer pipe sizes different from each other.

In accordance with the embodiments, the layer-divided PLPs may have PLPsizes different from one another, and information for identifying thestart position of the PLP or information for identifying the size of thePLP may be signaled.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing another example of a LDM frame using LDM oftwo layers and multiple-physical layer pipes.

Referring to FIG. 17, the LDM frame may include the common physicallayer pipe after the bootstrap and the preamble (L1 SIGNAL). The corelayer data physical layer pipes and the enhanced layer data physicallayer pipes may be transferred using two-layer LDM scheme after thecommon physical layer pipe.

In particular, the core layer data physical layer pipes and the enhancedlayer data physical layer pipes of FIG. 17 may correspond to one typeamong type 1 and type 2. The type 1 and the type 2 may be defined asfollows:

Type 1 PLP

It is transferred after the common PLP if the common PLP exists

It is transferred in a form of burst (one slice) in the frame

Type 2 PLP

It is transferred after the type 1 PLP if the type 1 PLP exists

It is transferred in a form of two or more sub-slices in the frame

The time diversity and the power consumption increase as the number ofsub-slices increases

In this case, the type 1 PLP may correspond to a non-dispersed PLP, andthe type 2 PLP may correspond to a dispersed PLP. In this case, thenon-dispersed PLP may assigned for contiguous data cell indices. In thiscase, the dispersed PLP may assigned to two or more subslices.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an application example of LDM frame usingLDM of two layers and multiple physical layer pipes.

Referring to FIG. 18, the common physical layer pipe (PLP(1,1)) may beincluded after the bootstrap and the preamble in the LDM frame. The dataphysical layer pipe (PLP(2,1)) for robust audio service may be includedin the LDM frame using the time-division scheme.

Moreover, the core layer data physical layer pipe (PLP(3,1)) formobile/indoor service (720p or 1080p HD) and the enhanced layer dataphysical layer pipe (PLP(3,2)) for high data rate service (4K-UHD ormultiple HD) may be transferred using 2-layer LDM scheme.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing another application example of a LDM frameusing LDM of two layers and multiple physical layer pipes.

Referring to FIG. 19, the LDM frame may include the bootstrap, thepreamble, the common physical layer pipe (PLP(1,1)). In this case, therobust audio service and mobile/indoor service (720p or 1080p HD) may betransferred using core layer data physical layer pipes(PLP(2,1),PLP(3,1)), and the high data rate service (4K-UHD or multipleHD) may be transferred using the enhanced layer data physical layerpipes (PLP(2,2),PLP(3,2)).

In this case, the core layer data physical layer pipe and the enhancedlayer data physical layer pipe may use the same time interleaver.

In this case, the physical layer pipes (PLP(2,2),PLP(3,2)) which providethe same service may be identified using the PLP_GROUP_ID indicating thesame PLP group.

In accordance with the embodiment, the service can be identified usingthe start position and the size of each physical layer pipe withoutPLP_GROUP_ID when the physical layer pipes which have sizes differentfrom each other for different LDM layers are used.

Although multiple physical layer pipes and layers corresponding to thelayer division multiplexing are identified by PLP(i,j) in FIG. 18 andFIG. 19, the PLP identification information and the layer identificationinformation may be signaled as fields different from each other.

In accordance with the embodiment, different layers may use PLPs havingdifferent sizes. In this case, each service may be identified using thePLP identifier.

The PLP start position and the PLP size may be signaled for each PLPwhen PLPs having different sizes are used for different layers.

The following pseudo code is for showing an example of fields includedin the preamble according to an embodiment of the present invention. Thefollowing pseudo code may be included in the L1 signaling information ofthe preamble.

[Pseudo Code] SUB_SLICES_PER_FRAME (15 bits) NUM_PLP (8 bits) NUM_AUX (4bits) AUX_CONFIG_RFU (8 bits) for i=0.. NUM_RF−1 { RF_IDX (3 bits)FREQUENCY (32 bits) } IF S2==‘xxx1’ { FEF_TYPE (4 bits) FEF_LENGTH (22bits) FEF_INTERVAL (8 bits) } for i=0 .. NUM_PLP−1 { NUM_LAYER (2~3bits)  for j=0 .. NUM_LAYER−1{  / * Signaling for each layer */  PLP_ID(i, j) (8 bits)  PLP_GROUP_ID (8 bits)  PLP_TYPE (3 bits) PLP_PAYLOAD_TYPE (5 bits)  PLP_COD (4 bits)  PLP_MOD (3 bits)  PLP_SSD(1 bit)  PLP_FEC_TYPE (2 bits)  PLP_NUM_BLOCKS_MAX (10 bits) IN_BAND_A_FLAG (1 bit)  IN_BAND_B_FLAG (1 bit)  PLP_MODE (2 bits) STATIC_PADDING_FLAG (1 bit)  IF (j > 0)   LL_INJECTION_LEVEL (3~8 bits) } / * End of NUM_LAYER loop */ / * Common signaling for all layers */FF_FLAG (1 bit) FIRST_RF_IDX (3 bits) FIRST_FRAME_IDX (8 bits)FRAME_INTERVAL (8 bits) TIME_IL_LENGTH (8 bits) TIME_IL_TYPE (1 bit)RESERVED_1 (11 bits) STATIC_FLAG (1 bit) PLP_START (24 bits) PLP_SIZE(24 bits) } / * End of NUM_PLP loop */ FEF_LENGTH_MSB (2 bits)RESERVED_2 (30 bits) for i=0 .. NUM_AUX−1 { AUX_STREAM_TYPE (4 bits)AUX_PRIVATE_CONF (28 bits) }

The NUM_LAYER may correspond to two bits or three bits in the abovepseudo code. In this case, the NUM_LAYER may be a field for identifyingthe number of layers in each PLP which is divided in time. In this case,the NUM_LAYER may be defined in the NUM_PLP loop so that the number ofthe layers can be different for each PLP which is divided in time.

The LL_INJECTION_LEVEL may correspond to 3˜8 bits. In this case, theLL_INJECTION_LEVEL may be a field for identifying the injection level ofthe lower layer (enhanced layer). In this case, the LL_INJECTION_LEVELmay correspond to the injection level information.

In this case, the LL_INJECTION_LEVEL may be defined from the secondlayer (j>0) when the number of layers is two or more.

The fields such as PLP_ID(i,j), PLP_GROUP_ID, PLP_TYPE,PLP_PAYLOAD_TYPE, PLP_COD, PLP_MOD, PLP_SSD, PLP_FEC_TYPE,PLP_NUM_BLOCKS_MAX, IN_BAND_A_FLAG, IN_BAND_B_FLAG, PLP_MODE,STATIC_PADDING_FLAG, etc. may correspond to parameters which are definedfor each layer, and may be defined inside of the NUM_LAYER loop.

In this case, the PLP_ID(i,j) may correspond to the PLP identificationinformation and the layer identification information. For example, the‘i’ of the PLP_ID(i,j) may correspond to the PLP identificationinformation and the ‘j’ of the PLP_ID(i,j) may correspond to the layeridentification information.

In accordance with embodiments, the PLP identification information andthe layer identification information may be included in the preamble asfields different from each other.

Moreover, the time interleaver information such as the TIME_IL_LENGTHand TIME_IL_TYPE, etc., the FRAME_INTERVAL which is related to the PLPsize and fields such as FF_FLAG, FIRST_RF_IDX, FIRST_FRAME_IDX,RESERVED_1, STATIC_FLAG, etc. may be defined outside of the NUM_LAYERloop and inside of the NUM_PLP loop.

In particular, the PLP_TYPE corresponds to type information of thephysical layer pipes and may correspond to 1 bit for identifying oneamong two types, type 1 and type 2. The PLP_TYPE is included in thepreamble without checking a condition of a conditional statementcorresponding to the layer identification information (j) in the abovepseudo code, but the PLP_TYPE may be selectively signaled (transferredonly for the core layer) based on a result (if(j=0)) of comparing thelayer identification information (j) with a predetermined value (0).

The PLP_TYPE is defined in the NUM_LAYER loop in the above pseudo code,but the PLP_TYPE may be defined outside of the NUM_LAYER loop and insideof the NUM_PLP loop.

In the above pseudo code, the PLP_START corresponds to a start positionof the corresponding physical layer pipe. In this case, the PLP_STARTmay identify the start position using cell addressing scheme. In thiscase, the PLP_START may be an index corresponding to a first data cellof the corresponding PLP.

In particular, the PLP_START may be signaled for every physical layerpipe and may be used for identifying services using themultiple-physical layer pipes together with a field for signaling thesize of the PLP.

The PLP_SIZE in the above pseudo code corresponds to size information ofthe physical layer pipes. In this case, the PLP_SIZE may be identical tothe number of data cells assigned to the corresponding physical layerpipe.

That is, the PLP_TYPE may be signaled based on the layer identificationinformation and the PLP_SIZE and the PLP_S TART may be signaled forevery physical layer pipe without considering the layer identificationinformation.

The combiner 340 shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 7 functions to combine thecore layer signal and the enhanced layer signal, and the combining maybe performed on a time interleaver group basis shared by the core layersignal and the enhanced layer signal because the core layer signal andthe enhanced layer signal share one time interleaver.

In this case, the time interleaver group may be set based on the corelayer in terms of memory efficiency and system efficiency.

However, when a time interleaver group is set based on the core layer,there may exist a FEC block that is divided by the time interleavergroup boundary in the enhanced layer. If such a FEC block which isdivided exist, signaling of fields for identifying a portion of the FECblock corresponding to the time interleaver group boundary may berequired.

The time interleaver for the Layered Division Multiplexing may be aconvolutional time interleaver (CTI) or a hybrid time interleaver (HTI).In this case, the convolutional time interleaver may be used when thereis one Physical Layer Pipe in the core layer, and the hybrid timeinterleaver may be used when there are two or more Physical Layer Pipesin the core layer. When the hybrid time interleaver is used, thePhysical Layer Pipes may include only complete FEC blocks.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example in which a convolutional timeinterleaver is used.

Referring to FIG. 20, the subframe includes two layers, the core layerand the enhanced layer.

As the subframe includes only one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP #0) in thecore layer in the example shown in FIG. 20, the time interleavercorresponding to the subframe is a convolutional time interleaver. ThePhysical Layer Pipes in each layer may include an incomplete FEC blockwhen the convolutional time interleaver is used.

Such an incomplete FEC block is located at the edge of the PLP and canbe identified using a field such as “L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start”indicating the position of the first complete FEC block in each PLP.

In the example shown in FIG. 20, the Physical Layer Pipe (PLP #0) of thecore layer and the Physical Layer Pipe (PLP #1) of the enhanced layerhave the same start position and size.

In the example shown in FIG. 20, it can be seen that the timeinterleaver group (TI Group) corresponds to the Physical Layer Pipe (PLP#0) of the core layer. The time interleaver group is commonly applied tothe core layer and the enhanced layer, and it is advantageous in termsof memory and system efficiency to be set corresponding to the corelayer.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing another example in which a convolutionaltime interleaver is used.

Referring to FIG. 21, it can be seen that the starting positions andsizes of the core layer physical layer pipe (PLP #0) and the enhancedlayer physical layer pipe (PLP #1) are different.

If the start position and the size of the core layer physical layer pipe(PLP #0) and the start position and the size of the enhanced layerphysical layer pipe (PLP #1) are different from each other, an emptyarea may be included in the enhanced layer.

As shown in FIG. 21, when the empty area is included at the rear end ofthe enhanced layer physical layer pipe (PLP #1), the enhanced layerphysical layer pipe (PLP #1) is ended with a complete FEC block.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example in which a hybrid timeinterleaver is used.

Referring to FIG. 22, two Physical Layer Pipes (PLP #0, PLP #1) areincluded in the core layer.

Thus, when the core layer is composed of multiple Physical Layer Pipes,a hybrid time interleaver is used.

When a hybrid time interleaver is used, all Physical Layer Pipes of thecore layer and the enhanced layer include only complete FEC blocks.

In this case, some parts of the enhanced layer may be emptied foralignment with the core layer boundary.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing time interleaver groups in the example ofFIG. 22.

Referring to FIG. 23, it can be seen that the time interleaver groupboundaries are set corresponding to the boundaries of the Physical LayerPipes of the core layer.

Although the time interleaver group includes one core layer physicallayer pipe in FIG. 23, according to an embodiment, the time interleavergroup may include two or more core layer physical pipes.

In the example shown in FIG. 23, one FEC block of the enhanced layer maybe divided by the time interleaver group boundary.

This is because time interleaver group partitioning is performed on acore layer basis, in which case it is possible to signal information foridentifying an incomplete FEC block of the enhanced layer, theincomplete FEC block corresponding to the time interleaver groupboundary.

FIGS. 24 to 26 are diagrams showing a process of calculating the size ofan incomplete FEC block in the example of FIG. 23.

Referring to FIG. 24, the distance (A) between the start position of theenhanced layer physical layer pipe (L1D_plp_start(PLP #2)) and the timeinterleaver group boundary is calculated using the start position of thecore layer physical layer pipe (L1D_plp_start(PLP #0)), the size of thecore layer physical layer pipe (L1D_plp_size(PLP #0)) and the startposition of the enhanced layer physical layer pipe (L1D_plp_start(PLP#2)).

Referring to FIG. 25, the distance (B) between the start position of thedivided FEC block and the time interleaver group boundary is calculatedusing the FEC block size of the enhanced layer.

In this case, the FEC block size may be decided by using the modulationinformation (L1D_plp_mod) corresponding to the enhanced layer and theFEC type information (L1D_plp_fec_type) corresponding to the enhancedlayer.

Referring to FIG. 26, the part (C) of the FEC block of the enhancedlayer corresponding to the boundary between the time interleaver groupsis identified.

Table 3 below shows an example of L1-Detail fields of the preambleaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

The preamble according to an embodiment of the present invention mayinclude L1-Basic and L1-Detail.

TABLE 3 # of Syntax bits L1_Detail_signaling( ) { L1D_version 4L1D_num_rf 3 for L1D_rf_id=1 .. L1D_num_rf { L1D_rf_frequency 19 } if (L1B_time_info_flag != 00 ) { L1D_time_sec 32 L1D_time_msec 10 if (L1B_time_info_flag != 01 ) { L1D_time_usec 10 if ( L1B_time_info_flag !=10 ) { L1D_time_nsec 10 } } } for i=0 .. L1B_num_subframes { if (i > 0){ L1D_mimo 1 L1D_miso 2 L1D_fft_size 2 L1D_reduced_carriers 3L1D_guard_interval 4 L1D_num_ofdm_symbols 11 L1D_scattered_pilot_pattern5 L1D_scattered_pilot_boost 3 L1D_sbs_first 1 L1D_sbs_last 1 } if(L1B_num_subframes>0) { L1D_subframe_multiplex 1 }L1D_frequency_interleaver 1 L1D_num_plp 6 for j=0 .. L1D_num_plp {L1D_plp_id 6 L1D_plp_lls_flag 1 L1D_plp_layer 2 L1D_plp_start 24L1D_plp_size 24 L1D_plp_scrambler_type 2 L1D_plp_fec_type 4 if(L1D_plp_fec_type ∈ {0,1,2,3,4,5}) { L1D_plp_mod 4 L1D_plp_cod 4 }L1D_plp_TI_mode 2 if ( L1D_plp_TI_mode=00) { L1D_plp_fec_block_start 15} if ( L1D_plp_TI_mode=01) { L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start 22 } if(L1D_num_rf>0) { L1D_plp_num_channel_bonded 3 if(L1D_plp_num_channel_bonded>0) { L1D_plp_channel_bonding_format 2 fork=0 .. L1D_plp_num_channel_bonded{ L1D_plp_bonded_rf_id 3 } } } if (i=0&& L1B_first_sub_mimo=1) || (i >1 && L1D_mimo=1) {L1D_plp_stream_combining 1 L1D_plp_IQ_interleaving 1 L1D_plp_PH 1 } if(L1D_plp_layer=0) { L1D_plp_type 1 if L1D_plp_type=1 {L1D_plp_num_subslices 14 L1D_plp_subslice_interval 24 }L1D_plp_TI_extended_interleaving 1 if (L1D_plp_TI_mode=01) {L1D_plp_CTI_depth 3 L1D_plp_CTI_start_row 11 } else if(L1D_plp_TI_mode=10) { L1D_plp_HTI_inter_subframe 1L1D_plp_HTI_num_ti_blocks 4 L1D_plp_HTI_num_fec_blocks_max 12 if(L1D_plp_HTI_inter_subframe=0) { L1D_plp_HTI_num_fec_blocks 12 } else {  for (k=0.. L1D_plp_HTI_num_ti_blocks) { L1D_plp_HTI_num_fec_blocks 12  } } L1D_plp_HTI_cell_interleaver 1 } } else {L1D_plp_ldm_injection_level 5 } } } L1D_reserved as need- ed L1D_crc 32}

All fields corresponding to assigned bits in Table 3 may correspond tounsigned integer most significant bit first (uimsbf) format.

Among fields in Table 3, L1D_plp_layer may be a field for representing alayer corresponding to each physical layer pipe. L1D_plp_start maycorrespond to start position information of the current PLP, and mayindicate an index of the first data cell of the current PLP.L1D_plp_size may correspond to size information of the current PLP, andmay indicate the number of data cells allocated to the current PLP.

L1D_plp_fec_type may correspond to FEC type information of the currentPLP, and may indicate the Forward Error Correction (FEC) method used forencoding the current PLP.

For example, L1D_plp_fec_type=“0000” may correspond to BCH and 16200LDPC, L1D_plp_fec_type=“0001” may correspond to BCH and 64800 LDPC,L1D_plp_fec_type=“0010” may correspond to CRC and 16200 LDPC,L1D_plp_fec_type=“0011” may correspond to CRC and 64800 LDPC,L1D_plp_fec_type=“0100” may correspond to 16200 LDPC, andL1D_plp_fec_type=“0101” may correspond to 64800 LDPC.

L1D_plp_mod may indicate modulation information of the current PLP. Inthis case, L1D_plp_mod may be signaled only if L1D_plp_fec_typesatisfies a predetermined condition as shown in Table 3.

For example, L1D_plp_mod=“0000” may correspond to QPSK,L1D_plp_mod=“0001” may correspond to 16QAM-NUC, L1D_plp_mod=“0010” maycorrespond to 64QAM-NUC, L1D_plp_mod=“0011” may correspond to256QAM-NUC, L1D_plp_mod=“0100” may correspond to 1024QAM-NUC andL1D_plp_mod=“0101” may correspond to 4096QAM-NUC. In this case,L1D_plp_mod can be set to “0100” or “0101” only if L1D_plp_fec_typecorresponds to 64800 LDPC.

L1D_plp_TI_mode indicates the time interleaving mode of the PLP.

For example, L1D_plp_TI_mode=“00” may represent no time interleavingmode, L1D_plp_TI_mode=“01” may represent convolutional time interleavingmode and L1D_plp_TI_mode=“10” may represent hybrid time interleavingmode.

L1D_plp_fec_block_start may correspond to start position information ofthe first complete FEC block in the physical layer pipe.L1D_plp_fec_block_start may be signaled only if L1D_plp_TI_mode=“00”.

When the Layered Division Multiplexing is used, L1D_plp_fec_block_startmay be signaled separately for each layer since the start positions ofthe first FEC blocks in each layer can be different.

L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start may correspond to start position informationof the first complete block in the physical layer pipe.L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start may be signaled only ifL1D_plp_TI_mode=“01”.

In this case, more bits may be allocated to L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_s tartthan L1D_plp_fec_block_start.

As described above, when L1D_plp_TI_mode=“10”, all PLPs include only thecomplete FEC blocks, so there is no need to separately signal the startposition of the first FEC block.

L1D_plp_HTI_num_fec_blocks may correspond to the number of FEC blockscontained in the current interleaving frame for the physical layer pipeof the core layer.

In this case, it can be seen that each of fields (L1D_plp_CTI_depth,L1D_plp_CTI_start_row) corresponding to a Convolutional timeinterleaving and fields (L1D_plp_HTL_inter_subframe,L1D_plp_HTI_num_ti_blocks, L1D_plp_HTI_num_fec_blocks_max,L1D_plp_HTI_num_fec_blocks, L1D_plp_HTI_cell_interleaver, etc.)corresponding to a Hybrid time interleaving according to whetherL1D_plp_TI_mode is 01 or 10 when L1D_plp_layer is 0 (core layer) aresignaled as the time interleaver information.

In this case, L1D_plp_CTI_depth may indicate the number of rows used inthe Convolutional time interleaver and L1D_plp_CTI_start_row mayindicate the position of interleaver selector at the start of thesubframe.

In this case, L1D_plp_HTL_inter_subframe may indicate the Hybrid timeinterleaving mode, and L1D_plp_HTI_num_ti_blocks may indicate the numberof TI blocks per interleaving frame or the number of subframes overwhich cells from one TI block are carried, andL1D_plp_HTI_num_fec_blocks_max may indicate one less than the maximumnumber of FEC blocks per interleaving frame for the current PhysicalLayer Pipe, and L1D_plp_HTI_num_fec_blocks may indicate one less thanthe number of FEC blocks contained in the current interleaving frame forthe current Physical Layer Pipe, and L1D_plp_HTI_cell_interleaver mayindicate whether the cell interleaver is used or not.

In this case, a field such as L1D_plp_TI_mode may be signaled separatelyfrom the time interleaver information signaled based on the core layer.

FIG. 27 is a diagram for explaining the number of bits required forL1D_plp_fec_block_start when L1D_plp_TI_mode=“00”.

Referring to FIG. 27, it can be seen that cell address of FEC blockstart position before time interleaving (C_in) and cell address of FECblock start position after time interleaving (C_out) are identical whenL1D_plp_TI_mode=“00” (no time interleaving).

In the case of no time interleaving as FIG. 27, it can be seen that theConvolutional interleaving is performed with a depth of 0.

In this case, L1D_plp_fec_block_start is defined after time interleavingso that C_out may be signaled as L1D_plp_fec_block_start for eachPhysical Layer Pipe in the subframe.

The longest FEC block may have a length of 64800/2=32400 when the LDPCcodeword is 16200 or 64800 and the modulation order is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10and 12.

As 32400 can be expressed by 15 bits, assigning 15 bits toL1D_plp_fec_block_start may cover the case of L1D_plp_TI_mode=“00”.

FIGS. 28 and 29 are diagrams for explaining the number of bits requiredfor L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start when L1D_plp_TI_mode=“01”.

Referring to FIG. 28, it can be seen that cell address of FEC blockstart position before time interleaving (C_in) and cell address of FECblock start position after time interleaving (C_out) are differentbecause of interleaving when L1D_plp_TI_mode=“01” (Convolutional timeinterleaving).

In this case, L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start is defined after timeinterleaving so that C_out may be signaled asL1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start for each Physical Layer Pipe in thesubframe.

Referring to FIG. 29, it can be seen that a convolutional timeinterleaver having a depth of 4 operates with C_in as an input and C_outas an output.

In this case, 0 corresponds to the 0th row, 1 corresponds to the 1strow, 2 corresponds to the 2nd row, 3 corresponds to the 3rd row, 4corresponds to the 0th row, 5 corresponds to the 1st row, 6 correspondsto the 2nd row, 7 corresponds to the 3rd row, 8 corresponds to the 0throw, 9 corresponds to the 1st row, 10 corresponds to the 2nd row in thecase of the input.

At First, 0, 4, 8, etc. corresponding to the 0th row are output withoutdelay.

1, 5, 9, etc. corresponding to the 1st row are output with 4 delays.

2, 6, 10, etc. corresponding to the 2nd row are output with 8 delays.

3, 7, etc. corresponding to the 3rd row are output with 12 delays.

That is, it can be seen that (n×4) delays occur for the n-th row.

Although the example of depth 4 (the number of rows of the timeinterleaver is 4) is explained in FIG. 29, the input corresponding tothe n-th row is delayed by (n×N_row) when the number of rows of the timeinterleaver is N_row.

In this case, cell address of FEC block start position after timeinterleaving (L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start) may be calculated as (C_in+(n×N_row)). In this case, n is a row corresponding to C_in and may bedetermined by L1D_CTI_start_row among the time interleaving informationsignaled by L1-Detail. In this case, n may be ((L1D_CTI_start_row+C_in)% N_row). In this case, L1D_CTI_start_row may indicate the position ofthe interleaver selector at the start of the subframe.

That is, L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start can be calculated by adding a delaycaused by time interleaving to C_in.

To calculate the number of bits required for signalingL1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_s tart, the maximum value ofL1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start is required. As already shown above, themaximum value of C_in is 32400, the maximum value of n is N_row−1 andN_row may be 1024 at most in the case of non-extended interleaving. Inthis case, the maximum value of L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start is(32400+(1024−1)×1024)=1079952. 1079952 can be signaled using at least 21bits.

N_row may be 1448 at most in the case of extended interleaving. In thiscase, the maximum value of L1D_plp_CTI_fec_block_start is(32400+(1448−1)×1448)=2127656. 2127656 can be signaled using at least 22bits.

Accordingly, since the maximum value of L1D_plp_fec_block_start isidentical to the maximum value of C_in when L1D_plp_TI_mode=“00” and themaximum value of L1D_plp CTI_fec_block_start is the sum of the maximumvalue of C_in and the delay due to the interleaving whenL1D_plp_TI_mode=“01”, an efficient signaling is possible when the numberof bits used for signaling L1D_plp CTI_fec_block_start is larger thanthe number of bits used for signaling L1D_plp_fec_block_start.

Since all Physical Layer Pipes of the core layer and the enhanced layerinclude only complete FEC blocks when L1D_plp_TI_mode=“10”, the startposition of all Physical Layer Pipes becomes the start position of thefirst complete FEC block so that there is no need to signal the fieldsuch as L1D_plp_fec_block_s tart or L1D_plp CTI_fec_block_start.

As described above, the apparatus and method for generating broadcastsignal frame according to the present invention are not limited to theconfigurations and methods of the aforementioned embodiments, but someor all of the embodiments may be selectively combined such that theembodiments are modified in various manners.

1. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame, comprising: acombiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a corelayer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; apower normalizer configured to reduce power of the multiplexed signal toa power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaverconfigured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performinginterleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and theenhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate abroadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling timeinterleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver, whereinthe time interleaver performs the interleaving by using one of aplurality of operation modes.
 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein theoperations modes include a first mode corresponding to no timeinterleaving, a second mode for performing a Convolutional timeinterleaving and a third mode for performing a Hybrid time interleaving.3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the preamble include a fieldindicating a start position of a first complete FEC block correspondingto a current Physical Layer Pipe for the first mode and the second mode,and does not include the field indicating the start position of thefirst FEC block for the third mode.
 4. The apparatus of claim 3, whereinthe field indicating the start position of the first FEC block is one ofa first field used in the first mode and a second field used in thesecond mode, and the first field and the second field have differentlengths.
 5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the length of the secondfield is longer than the length of the first field.
 6. The apparatus ofclaim 5, wherein the length of the first field is determined based on alength of a LDPC codeword and a modulation order and the length of thesecond field is determined not only by the length of the LDPC codewordand the modulation order but also by further considering a depth of aConvolutional time interleaver.
 7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein thelength of the first field is 15 bits and the length of the second fieldis 22 bits.
 8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the first field and thesecond field are separately signaled for each of a core layercorresponding to the core layer signal and an enhanced layercorresponding to the enhanced layer signal.
 9. The apparatus of claim 8,wherein the time interleaver uses one of time interleaver groups and aboundary between the time interleaver groups is a boundary betweenPhysical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of the core layer.
 10. The apparatus ofclaim 9, wherein the time interleaver information is signaled on thebasis of the core layer.
 11. A method of generating broadcast signalframe, comprising: generating a multiplexed signal by combining a corelayer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels;reducing power of the multiplexed signal to a power level correspondingto the core layer signal; generating a time-interleaved signal byperforming interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signaland the enhanced layer signal; and generating a broadcast signal frameincluding a preamble for signaling time interleaver informationcorresponding to the interleaving, wherein the interleaving is performedby using one of a plurality of operation modes.
 12. The method of claim11, wherein the operations modes include a first mode corresponding tono time interleaving, a second mode for performing a Convolutional timeinterleaving and a third mode for performing a Hybrid time interleaving.13. The method of claim 12, wherein the preamble include a fieldindicating a start position of a first complete FEC block correspondingto a current Physical Layer Pipe for the first mode and the second mode,and does not include the field indicating the start position of thefirst FEC block for the third mode.
 14. The method of claim 13, whereinthe field indicating the start position of the first FEC block is one ofa first field used in the first mode and a second field used in thesecond mode, and the first field and the second field have differentlengths.
 15. The method of claim 14, wherein the length of the secondfield is longer than the length of the first field.
 16. The method ofclaim 15, wherein the length of the first field is determined based on alength of a LDPC codeword and a modulation order and the length of thesecond field is determined not only by the length of the LDPC codewordand the modulation order but also by further considering a depth of aConvolutional time interleaver.
 17. The method of claim 15, wherein thelength of the first field is 15 bits and the length of the second fieldis 22 bits.
 18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first field and thesecond field are separately signaled for each of a core layercorresponding to the core layer signal and an enhanced layercorresponding to the enhanced layer signal.
 19. The method of claim 18,wherein the interleaving uses one of time interleaver groups and aboundary between the time interleaver groups is a boundary betweenPhysical Layer Pipes (PLPs) of the core layer.
 20. The method of claim19, wherein the time interleaver information is signaled on the basis ofthe core layer.